Sentences with word «skink»

Snow skink lizards rip open the fused petals of honey bush flowers to get at the nectar snack inside.

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

By trapping lizards and snipping off a tiny portion of their tails for DNA analysis, researchers found that adult desert skinks live in the same burrow with multiple generations of their children.

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

We had a resident skink in our toilet for about a week.

When you take a look at a five - lined skink, its tail is probably the first thing to grab your eye.

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

The most useful adaptation goes to the Burrowing Mole Skink, which has a little picture window in his eyelid so it can look around without opening its eyes.

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.

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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.

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.

In «pregnant» Trachylepis ivensii skinks, embryos burrow into the wall of one of the female's oviducts — the tubes that run from the ovaries to the outside — and take nutrients directly from the blood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Blue tongues are members of the Tiliqua genus (I can't tell you how many people I've heard refer to them as «tequila skinks») and range through Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.

This is our pet skink, Cosette.

Answer by kristen we had a problem with our Brutus skinking really bad!

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But I do wish to address, and hopefully resolve, the ones I can — in this case so my granddaughters at least have a chance to grow up seeing wallabies, shingleback skinks, galas, king parrots, White's treefrogs, kukaburras, carpet pythons, echidnas and bandicoots somewhere other than in a picture - book of extinct Australian animals.

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

Unusual cycads which are relics of plants from 150 million years ago grow on the mountain, and the rare Albert's lyrebird, the world's largest skink and birdwing butterflies are some of the natives you could meet on a Tamborine visit.

The kitchen is fully equipped with chef - grade appliances, quartz countertops, and a rustic copper skink, while a second copper sink graces the bar area by the lounge.

Bearded dragons, painted dragons, barking geckos, shinglebacks and numerous skinks are noted reptile residents.

It supports small populations of the Hooded Plover (a nationally significant species), as well as important populations of Rufous Bristlebird, Swamp Antechinus and Glossy Grass Skink.

Well - established tea - tree heathlands are important to the Rufous Bristlebird, while wetland areas provide food and nesting sites for the Australasian Bittern, Lewins Rail and Swamp Skink.

The High Elves aren't the only ones with some new tricks on show — the Lizardmen have brought chameleon skinks and Horned One cavalry, and their legendary lord Mazdamundi is finally riding his ancient stegadon, Zlaaq, as he should be.

And the Scottish skink isn't the only soup with a name to savour as you eat it.

The green - blooded skink, native to Papua New Guinea, has green blood as a result of high levels of hemoglobin by - products (biliverdin and bilirubin) in its blood stream.

The nails of a Blue Tongued Skink can grow to be very long and sharp and just like other pets; you need to clip...

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.

The traditional Cullen Skink is a speciality at the restaurant but you'll find that there are great dishes including breakfast options, home baked meals and a range of specials which change on a daily basis.

School for Skinks: Can Conditioned Taste Aversion Enable Bluetongue Lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) to Avoid Toxic Cane Toads (Rhinella marina) as Prey?

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

Ido Pen of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and colleagues studied two clans of snow skinks, Niveoscincus ocellatus, living at low or high altitude in the mountains of Tasmania, Australia.

The bluetail mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus) is found in Florida's interior peninsula and is considered a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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

intervention I resuscitated a skink lizard that got stuck in a hose upon telling an electrician he made a sculpture an exhibit from baker - light rubbish not just a brand of hose and not your run of the mill garbage o when a person joke, s about object identification i say if you were in my shoes

Skink is a soup made originally...