Sentences with phrase «shingleback 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.

When the skinks gave birth, the scientists sexed their offspring.

When this article was first posted, we incorrectly labelled the snow skinks as Niveoscincus greeni.

The team captured pregnant skinks from each clan and allowed half of each group to lie in the sun for 10 hours per day, while the others were restricted to 4 hours.

SNOW skinks can base their gender on either genes or temperature.

At low altitudes, females born early under warm conditions have more time to grow large and produce offspring, so it is advantageous for these skinks» gender to be temperature - sensitive.

I studied the ecology and evolution of lizards called skinks on islands in the Pacific.

Lights attract insects, insects attract frogs, toads, geckos, skinks and other animals, which in turn attract hungry snakes.

The great desert skink is the homebody of the lizard world.

Together, the experiments offer «compelling evidence» that embryonic skinks can detect and respond to predator - like signals, the authors write in the March 2013 issue of Copeia.

In two lab experiments, the researchers compared the hatching dates for skink eggs exposed to vibrations with those of eggs that weren't shaken.

«This is not just happening in delicate skinks — I'm thinking that environmentally cued hatching is very widespread, in many groups.»

Desert skinks are fairly faithful lovers, which could help explain why families stick together.

[E] arly hatching skinks were significantly smaller and left behind larger residual yolks in their eggs than spontaneously hatching skinks,» the authors write, potentially reducing the chances of survival.

That curtain began to lift a bit a few years ago, when Doody and student Philip Paull of Monash University in Australia began studying a population of delicate skinks (Lampropholis delicata) in a park near Sydney.

The skink study is «very cool» and «very clear — we really don't have well documented examples like this in reptiles,» says biologist Karen Warkentin of Boston University.

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.

So Gopal Murali, an evolutionary biologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, decided to look at how such stripes might function in lizards, many of which sport racing stripes similar to the five - lined skink.

Ms Pintor, along with supervisors Professor Lin Schwarzkopf and Professor Andrew Krockenberger from the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, used three groups of Australian skinks for their analysis.

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.

Worse yet, what fractured forests remain would start to suffer from «lonely tree syndrome,» in which their health and potential as a carbon skink drops severely.

Comparison of the L. adleri HO174 genome with those of L. tarentolae Parrot - TarII and lizard - infecting L. adleri RLAT / KE / 1957 / SKINK - 7 showed extensive gene amplifications, pervasive aneuploidy, and fission of chromosomes 30 and 36.

ANSWERS: Komodo Dragon Lizard — Indonesia; Stump - Toed Gecko Lizard — Hawaii; Dwarf Gecko Lizard — Kenya; Green Iguana Lizard — Mexico; Nile Monitor Lizard — The Gambia; Shingleback Skink Lizard — Australia.

Iguanas and Komodos and Skinks — Oh, My!

To find endangered lizards (including anoles, skinks, and geckos), click on Index - Vertebrate Animals and then on Reptiles.

This hilarious ecothriller explodes with humor as Skink, Florida's ex-governor and resident ecoterrorist, bursts out of the sand where he's been hiding to catch turtle - egg poachers.

Luckily for young Richard Sloan, Skink is also available for other services, like helping find Richard's missing cousin.

He's got a partner, Beth Derringer, who is his best friend, and a private investigator named Phil Skink, who is just as ethically challenged as Victor so they get along perfectly.

Set on his familiar, flamboyant Florida turf, Skinny Dip is filled with delightfully eccentric and eccentrically screwed - up characters, including Skink, ex-governor-turned-ecological-avenger of the endangered Everglades; Chaz, a real sleaze who abets the endangerment of the Everglades, then tries to kill his gorgeous...

Had I mentioned my impending encounter with Cullen Skink (no relation), a sort of Scottish fish chowder?

I have seen otherwise healthy skinks walking around on four stubs, but this obviously is easy to prevent and should be monitored.

If one runs out of these options, the skinks will even relish a small plate of canned cat food.

Having more options for your customers, especially options that are as lovely, amenable and intrinsically interesting as a blue - tongued skink, can't hurt.

These skinks are potentially subject to a condition called «swayback» in which their spine becomes soft.

This is our pet skink, Cosette.

Some reptiles make great pets, including Northern Blue - Tongue Skinks.

Aquatic Turtle Care Bearded Dragon Care Blue Tongued Skink Care Box Turtle Care Green Iguana Care Savannah Monitor Care

«Green iguanas and some species of chameleons are different kinds of lizards commonly seen in the pet trade; also popular in the pet trade are bearded dragons, leopard geckos, crested geckos, blue - tongued skinks, monitor lizards and Chinese water dragons to name a few,» she explains.

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.

Other threatened species like the great desert skink we find a bit more.»

Internship at the Little Rock, Arkansas Zoo where she assisted in developing and delivering conservation awareness shows, and provided behavioral training and enrichment for over 40 animals, ranging from a Bald Eagle to a baby Groundhog, to a Blue - Tongued Skink.

About Youtuber My Pets: Ellie, shih tzu, Steve, poodle mix, Matilda, syrian hamster, Chicken and Waffles, gerbils, Piper, leopard gecko, Harper, crested gecko, Fiona, pacman frog, Lola, blue tongue skink and 10 gallon tropical aquarium.

Also recommended for Blue - Tongued Skinks and BoxTurtles.

It is an impressive hunter, taking mammals such as rabbits, mice and rats, and small elapid snakes and skinks.

Here at the Exotic Animal Hospital of Orlando we offer a variety of services in order to prevent diseases in your pet lizard (bearded dragon, leopard gecko, green iguana, uromastyx, Chinese water dragon, monitors, geckos, skinks, etc).

Those who have their heart set on a water monitor, which, though easily tamed, have the potential to get to eight or nine feet in length, might be mollified by the significantly smaller savannah monitor, or perhaps a Tegu, or, even more amenable to the abilities of a novice, a blue - tongued skink or bearded dragon (the name «dragon» of course having its own cache with youngsters).

Sandfish are beautiful skink - like lizards, with charming faces and amusing behaviors, that dive in and out of loose sand.

He is married to Christina Mendelsohn, DVM, and has two children, two dogs, a cat, a blue tongued skink, a Russian tortoise, two fish tanks and a rabbit.