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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Lizard!!!
Extra credit....first student to identify this lizard, tell me what it eats and its ideal habitat. Ready...GO!!!
Maria He's an eumeces laticeps , also known as the broad headed skink.This species may be found in many habitats but prefers wooded areas and are often seen in spreading live oak trees in maritime forests. Although they can be found in urban and suburban areas, their preferred habitat is humid forest areas with abundant leaf litter, especially oak forests. Broadhead skinks prey on a wide variety of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates. Its a boy because males have red heads while females all a solid color. It is nonvenomous even though its red head makes it look poisonous.
It is a broad headed skink. Broad-headed skinks live in trees and prefer open forest habitats But they are also found hunting, mating, and nesting on the ground. Areas with thick leaf litter are preferred for nesting.Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks. Broad-headed skinks search for food in trees and on the the ground using visual and scent signals, which are detected via tongue flicking. Broad-headed skinks have no known negative impact on humans. So can we keep 'im?
This lizard is a broad-headed skink(skank as riley would say). The broad-headed skink eats insects and spiders. This type of lizard usually lives in trees or logs, sometimes even in abandoned buildings.
or this certain lizard was born in our area and wandered around and found our school thought it was cool and wandered into your awesome classroom Mrs. Yates.
This was kind of like in the summer when there was a big beetle in the annex hallway and Mrs. Hanan our old science teacher kept it!!!!!
Amelia This lizard is prefered to the term eumeces laticeps or broad-headed skink. "The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance. Adult males are brown or olive brown in color and have bright orange heads during the mating season in spring. Females have five light stripes running down the back and the tail, similar to the Five-lined Skink. Juveniles are dark brown or black and also striped and have blue tails."- Wikipedia Luckily, skinks are not venomnous. The skink lives in forest habitats and use thick leaf areas for nesting. They live in urban areas such houses and crowded buildings and eastern and central parts of the US. "Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks."-BioKids.
ananomous :) This lizard is prefered to the term eumeces laticeps or broad-headed skink. "The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance. Adult males are brown or olive brown in color and have bright orange heads during the mating season in spring. Females have five light stripes running down the back and the tail, similar to the Five-lined Skink. Juveniles are dark brown or black and also striped and have blue tails."- Wikipedia Luckily, skinks are not venomnous. The skink lives in forest habitats and use thick leaf areas for nesting. They live in urban areas such houses and crowded buildings and eastern and central parts of the US. "Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks."-BioKids
Maria
ReplyDeleteHe's an eumeces laticeps , also known as the broad headed skink.This species may be found in many habitats but prefers wooded areas and are often seen in spreading live oak trees in maritime forests. Although they can be found in urban and suburban areas, their preferred habitat is humid forest areas with abundant leaf litter, especially oak forests. Broadhead skinks prey on a wide variety of insects, spiders, and other invertebrates. Its a boy because males have red heads while females all a solid color. It is nonvenomous even though its red head makes it look poisonous.
It is a broad headed skink.
ReplyDeleteBroad-headed skinks live in trees and prefer open forest habitats But they are also found hunting, mating, and nesting on the ground. Areas with thick leaf litter are preferred for nesting.Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks. Broad-headed skinks search for food in trees and on the the ground using visual and scent signals, which are detected via tongue flicking. Broad-headed skinks have no known negative impact on humans. So can we keep 'im?
Alyssa
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This lizard is a broad-headed skink(skank as riley would say). The broad-headed skink eats insects and spiders. This type of lizard usually lives in trees or logs, sometimes even in abandoned buildings.
ReplyDeleteAmy
Ms. Yates this lizard is all the way from the east side from around Kansas, Texas, and Ohio.
ReplyDeleteHow did it get here
Maybe it was born there and traveled
Deleteor this certain lizard was born in our area and wandered around and found our school thought it was cool and wandered into your awesome classroom Mrs. Yates.
This was kind of like in the summer when there was a big beetle in the annex hallway and Mrs. Hanan our old science teacher kept it!!!!!
Sophia
Amelia
ReplyDeleteThis lizard is prefered to the term eumeces laticeps or broad-headed skink. "The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance. Adult males are brown or olive brown in color and have bright orange heads during the mating season in spring. Females have five light stripes running down the back and the tail, similar to the Five-lined Skink. Juveniles are dark brown or black and also striped and have blue tails."- Wikipedia Luckily, skinks are not venomnous. The skink lives in forest habitats and use thick leaf areas for nesting. They live in urban areas such houses and crowded buildings and eastern and central parts of the US. "Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks."-BioKids.
absoluely correct
DeleteQuinn i think it is a salamander that eats what ur frogs eat crickets or small bugs
ReplyDeleteeverybody vote 4 skrillyx
ReplyDeleteEvery one vote for skinky
ReplyDeleteananomous :)
ReplyDeleteThis lizard is prefered to the term eumeces laticeps or broad-headed skink. "The broad-headed skink gets its name from the wide jaws, giving the head a triangular appearance. Adult males are brown or olive brown in color and have bright orange heads during the mating season in spring. Females have five light stripes running down the back and the tail, similar to the Five-lined Skink. Juveniles are dark brown or black and also striped and have blue tails."- Wikipedia Luckily, skinks are not venomnous. The skink lives in forest habitats and use thick leaf areas for nesting. They live in urban areas such houses and crowded buildings and eastern and central parts of the US. "Broad-headed skinks eat many kinds of insects, spiders, snails, small rodents, and smaller reptiles, including young skinks."-BioKids
western skink commonly eaten by other reptiles such as allies (alligator lizards) or birds of prey. The males have that red head
ReplyDeletethat is a skink. he is so cool.
ReplyDeletejauren
its habitat is that cage or the wild
ReplyDeletejauren