Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It likes hiding under dead leaves and attacking your ankles when you pass by.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

This poor young hatchling has some major vision problems, which have led to no shortage of difficulties in his daily life. Oh, sure, he'd love to be nipping at people's ankles alongside all of his friends, but with his luck what he thinks is an especially impressive-sized ankle usually turns out to be a very painful splinter-giving-inclined tree. Figures.