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Like their close relatives the blue-tongued skinks, shinglebacks -- sometimes called 'sleepy lizards' -- are big, fat, short-legged, slow lizards with big heads and few defenses other than heavy scales and a dramatic tongue display (as seen in several of these images). Their name comes from their large, keeled scales (much bigger than those on bluetongues). On warm spring days, we found many shinglebacks crawling across dirt roads (and unfortunately, quite a few that did not successfully get across). These were photographed at several locations in southwestern Western Australia (between Perth and Albany). |
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