Catching Lizards

Correction: The lizard pictured is an alligator lizard, not a skink. I thought alligator lizards were a kind of skink until recently.

Eric is a great lizard catcher. He's kind of become our own Jane Goodall of lizards in the Ramshackle jungle. This fine specimen is a skink, which Eric suspects is pregnant. These lizards have a wicked bite. Once they latch on to you, they don't often let go. Eric has mastered the catch. I fear that I may have cursed us by writing that last sentence. If Eric loses a finger to a lizard, rest assured I will share the gruesome tale here.

This skink, however, just fell out of the oak tree while Eric was turning the compost. And surprisingly, it lost part of it's tail in the fall.


This picture doesn't show the slight tail twitch, a final complaint as it leaves the body behind.

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