Blue-tongue lizard

I found this blue-tongue lizard when my husband was loading up some palm tree fronds into the trailer to take to the dump. This is just in our quarter acre suburban block in Logan, Queensland. What a beauty, eh?

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• lizard
• wildlife
• Australian
• native
• fauna
• blue-tongue.
• bluetongue
• blue.
• tongue

[amandagreenslade]

Yeah I suppose you could say it was friendly, but I've found with lizards that they don't usually struggle once you've got them firmly, but not too firmly in your hand. They seem to realise they're not in immediate pain and can't do anything to get away anyhow. With the little geckos I usually have to close my hand so they're in the dark and then they stop trying to bungee jump off my hand. My cats catch a lot of those. :(

[amandagreenslade]

Hi. I live in Queensland.

[WeedieWeedenhofer]

You don't put it in a tree there not good climbers, an if ur cat has seen it conceder it dead, u murderer!!!!

[kikilikipikiwiki]

that looks exactly like my lizard lenny!

[ConnorMrJackson]

blue tongue lizards are skink because they drop there tail but u have to cause them a lot of stress

[joinmebowser9000]

@Kellerwerks I can't comepletely disagree with you, cause it is a Lizard all in all, but Skink is kinda a race for itself, with the blue tongue skink fore ex., or the red fire skink or what its named xD

[Kellerwerks]

@joinmebowser9000 Yes, but skinks are still lizards. They are not mutually exclusive, unlike lizards and tuataras.

[joinmebowser9000]

@Kellerwerks This is still a skink :P

[Kellerwerks]

@joinmebowser9000

Skink: –noun

any of numerous LIZARDS of the family Scincidae, common in many regions of the Old and New world, typically having flat, smooth, overlapping scales and comprising terrestrial, arboreal, and fossorial species.

[Keanu181881]

@joinmebowser9000 I know, but mostly in Australia they don't really call them skinks..

[joinmebowser9000]

@Keanu181881 Lizards and skinks are different. They look like each other but they aren't.

P.S. It's named skink in Autsrailia. English is still English -_-

[Keanu181881]

@joinmebowser9000 In Australia their called Lizards.