Thereby hangs a tail.

One of the researchers took me along to check on a slink nest today.


The eggs are just about ready to hatch.
When he rolled the log back the adult was wrapped around the eggs but slowly burrowed into the ground.

Plestiodon fasciatus

The five-lined skink is Ontario’s only native species of lizard.

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