Sentences with phrase «tailed skinks»
All the woodland creatures one would expect, great and small, are here» deer and black bears, glistening black snakes and tawny foxes, Ruby - Throated Hummingbirds and owls and Blue - Tailed Skinks, and so on.
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When you take a look at a five - lined skink, its tail is probably the first thing to grab your eye.
If a bird goes in for the kill but underestimates a skink's speed, it will come up with nothing but a mouthful of disembodied tail — and the skink will live another day.
That's a good thing for the skink, because lizards can drop their tails when in danger and regrow them later.
Like many present - day lizard species, such as skinks, that can detach their tails to escape or distract a predator, the middle of many tail vertebrae had cracks in them.
This include mammals like the critically endangered mountain pygmy - possum and the brush - tailed bettong (woylie); the endangered northern quoll; as well as the critically endangered Christmas Island whiptail - skink and the vulnerable malleefowl.
If a predator tries to attack from behind, the tail detaches and keeps wiggling while the skink scurries away, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.