10/22/2025
🦎 Reptile Awareness Day: When Nature Meets Marvel 🕷️
With its bright red head and deep blue body, the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama looks like it just swung straight out of a comic book!
Often called the Spider-Man Lizard, this East African native is fast, fearless, and always ready for a sun-soaked wall climb.
At MiDOG, we’ve got a few Spidey fans in the office, so naturally, this little superhero caught our attention. But beyond the colors, creatures like the Spider-Man lizard remind us just how vast and powerful the microbial worlds inside every animal truly are.
“The microbial universe is vast, even when just limited to those that infect our reptile patients. Using MiDOG’s technology has opened so many doors for my patients and will continue to open doors in the reptile medicine industry.”
— Dr. Krista Keller, DVM, Dipl. ACZM, University of California, Davis; MiDOG Board Member & Exotics Expert
From superheroes on screen to the microscopic heroes (and villains) we uncover in the lab, MiDOG’s DNA-based diagnostics help clinicians explore the unseen worlds that shape animal health.
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