A couple of Blue Tongue Lizards that were found in the kitchen. Monday, February 11, 2008
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43 comments:
The second is a friend which is why the gloves are off!
OHHHH!!!! :) Blue RULES!!!
Also with a touch of pink Lapin Poulain :)
LOVE 'em!
The first certainly is cranky, the second certainly is FAT!
What ARE you feeding them in your kitchen Anon??
I love them too Simon :) The second knows us well because we saved its life when a baby, the first was probably wanting funny business behind the fridge with the second, it is warm there when there isn't sun outside :) They like eggs but we don't have eggs behind the fridge and don't want any either!
:o) hahah!
I tried giving Monty an egg for breakfast but he was not keen- too busy soaking up the sun!
Blue tongues are great for cleaning up snails in the garden too!
The good habit of eating snails is why the second Blue Tongue is fat Simon! I hope ... or maybe she IS carrying babies (Blue Tongues don't actually lay eggs). Her name is Lucy by the way ;)
So they give birth to live young? (like a red bellied black)
Yes, we have a farm of them in the backyard Simon. Of lizards .... NOT snakes!
Blue-tongued skinks are the genus Tiliqua, which contains some of the largest members of the skink family (Scincidae). They are called commonly blue-tongued lizards in Australia, where true lizards (Lacertidae) do not naturally occur. As suggested by these common names, its distinguishing characteristic is a blue tongue.
Very nice.
Apparently we had one in our garden on Sunday (I live in a duplex) but I missed it - doh! Incredible beasties :-)
Ha ha, how cool; I love Lizards, how fun is that! Wish I could be there.
OH Prof.Fufu-u are an education ;)
Perhaps you were upstairs or on the furthest side of the Blue-Tongued visited garden Mountaingirl? HEEHEE it will be back!
Always a lot of fun when the Blue-tongues have to be retrieved from behind the fridge Mary Stebbins Taitt :) Today we are retrieving a possum from inside the roof!
They go *pop* when I drive over them.
Under an English bus Mr Totties? I don't believe you!
we used to have possums in the roof Anon, but Monty now lives up there...
That doesn't look like your kitchen to me. Or is it?
Fiesty looking lizard, love the second picture - he reminds me of Kermit the Frog.
We don't have possums in the roof any more Simon, and I won't be putting a snake up there!
Even without him being green I can see Kermit's face Perriette! HAHA!!
Today I saw a [live] bright green gecko but it was enjoying its glass cage at the museum so maybe that doesn't count.
Errrrm, no ... stuffed lizards only count if live AND alive ElizT!
what is this, anon: you have lizards in your kitchen? WHAAAT?
It was alive. And looking at some tasty flies in there with it.
That's right KJ, they are better than snakes ;)
Are you sure ElizT? Museums usually have dead things in them ... it and the flies weren't mechanical were they? Maybe you were in a zoo? Maybe you call zoos 'Museums' and museums 'Zoos' in New Zealand? Hhehehhee
I've never seen anything like that before. Weird stuff you have in your backgarden.
I've just got pigeons that seem determined to strip the trees of cherry blossom before its even out...
Wonderful patterns on their scales.
better than snakes? oh no! Our Monty even keeps my mother away from the house ( true! she will not visit whilst Monty is here!!)
Perfect! ;o)
Your blue tongue lizards that is, not on the pigeons... (I've not got close enough to look under their feathers...)
They are lovely to touch Caroline, soft :) However can really suction onto you without teeth!
I've stroked a snake but not a lizard... not sure I like the sound of their suction abilities!
They feel the same, just with legs and sometimes claws Caroline :) Once a tiny Gecko attached itself to my Mother's hand and wouldn't let go ... it was really funny with her running around the house. However her hand was so bruised from the suction she couldn't do anything for a week.
:( Imagine a large Blue-Tongue's suction capabilities!
Argh - that sounds painful!
I think I'll leave the geckos in peace.
Good idea Caroline, they don't like being played with anyway :)
Do geckos eat butterflies?
HAHAHHAAA yes probably! They like eating insects!
;;;;;;)
So geckos are anti-chaos then?
Geckos eat butterflies but not birds Caroline! You decide whether one flutters or is more batty than the other - creating chaos!
:O
Are there birds that eat geckos?
In that case we'd just need a butterfly that eats birds for a new take on paper, stone, scissors.
Yes, there are many birds that eat Geckos Caroline! Maybe there is a poisonous butterfly which the birds don't touch - highly probable! HAHA!!
I just won playing paper, stone, scissors here:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/Scissors+Paper+Stone/
Butterfly could look like scissors
Gecko like stone
Bird like paper
OH!!!!!!! I just won also, maybe the Gecko IS anti-chaotic ;)
In our museums everything is live, even the dinosaurs.
WHAAAAAAAAAA must be the attack of the Butterfly Effect ElizT! Or is that frolicking sheep ....?
Litchen? Do you live in a tent?
Kitchen Ces! Put your glasses on and you'll see there is no litchen anywhere ... ;)
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