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COMMON NAME:
Western Blue-tongue Lizard
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Tiliqua occipitalis
STATUS: Secure
SIZE (mm): 270
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DESCRIPTION: Western Blue-tongue Lizards are smooth-scaled
and have a broad, triangular shaped head. Wide, dark-coloured bands
run across the skink’s body and tail. They also have a fleshy
blue tongue, which gives them their name.
PREFERRED HABITAT: Adult females give birth to 4–10
(usually 5) young in late summer. Western Blue-tongue Lizards are
ovoviviparous, which means the offspring develop in a jelly-like sack
inside the mother’s body before they are born. When threatened,
a Blue-tongue lizard will flatten its body, hiss and open its mouth
to display the blue tongue to scare the predator away. Skinks are
often eaten by central Australian Aborigines and their other predators
include snakes, monitors and raptors (birds of prey).
DIET: Blue-tongueLizards are omnivores and feed
on invertebrates, snails and slugs, flowers and fruit.
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