Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It spends its time pouncing on insects.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. It is also now covered in brightly colored stripes.

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 hatchling's favorite food is moths; she likes the furry fluttering feel when she snatches one out of the air.  Butterflies are fun for her to eat also—she spends many a day leaping about meadows, stirring up a swarm and feasting on it.

     She hates cowpies, having inadvertently landed on them more than once in her leaping about fields.  Therefore, she avoids areas with herds of cows about.