Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Chalcides striatus

Western three-toed skink(english)
Eslizon tridactilo iberico(spanish)
This little lizard i found yesterday in the garden,while it was trying to catch the first sun on a relative warm day for this time of the year.It is normally a pretty common lizard with a big variety of habitats,but of coarse it is loosing ground to habitat loss by human.As well it is intentially killed because it looks a lot like a snake,so if you see a snake like animal dont just kill it ,because they say snakes are are bad.It is on the opposite,they eat a lot of animals we try to kill as well,so snakes and lizard are in one way helping to keep pest animals at low levels.About the skink again it likes messy places where it can hide and hunt for crickets grasshopers etc.It just needs a place with sun,and it is happy.From Galicia

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