Could anyone identify this lizard, we have tinted windows at our place so we get all manner of critters coming up to the glass, I think they are a bit vain and like to look at themselves
I think it may be a type of monitor as it walks/ runs in the same way as Goanna's, and it's very quick.
Any help appreciated, sorry about the image quality, I had to crop and then resize to be able to upload them.
Malcolm Turnbull visiting a local electorate. Look for other lizards to see if the front bench came with him...
As per Douglas Adams: "take me to your lizard." (In "Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish")
Actually, on this auspicious day in the USA I think it is worth the full quote (for those who came in late):
“I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.”
[…Ford explains to Arthur…] “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard
might get in. Got any gin?”
Definitely a Cunningham's skink - it's scales are too coarse and the lizard is too 'small' to be a Land Mullet.
In the wild it can be found in rocky areas where when threatened it puffs itself when it is between two layers of rock where its spines help to wedge it in, making it almost impossible to get it out involuntarily.
Kept a few of these as pets during my teens and twenties - lovely lizards.
The link you provided in your last post shows, I think, a land mullet. Here's a good link for your stumpy tail or shingle back - notice how much smoother the scales on its back are compared to those in Ric's pictures.
Many thanks for all the help, from the link I'm sure it's the Cunningham's skink.
I think there may be three of them. they live under the container in the paddock and the weirdest thing is that a family of rabbits live under it as well.
Last year I used to see the skink and a rabbit just sitting together.
Of course as soon as grabbed the camera and carefully opened the door
The rabbit would scoot and the skink would too. It was like the rabbit was the sentry.
Hi all
I found the photo I was talking about, the perspective is a bit out but they are actually a lot closer. There's a Monty Python sketch in there somewhere.
Speaking of snails, when we first moved out here we had a snail plague from all the potplants we brought with us. Gone in 3 months!! Haven't seen a snail in ten years.
Definitely a Cunninghams Skink, bred some (licenced captive) a few years back-give birth to live young- lovely animal but can give a nip as my eldest son found out the hard way
