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Location:

Children's Trail - small tunnel with low ceiling new red barn; used to be the 'mouse house'

Shingleback Skink

Identifying Features:

History:

More Information:

  • Species of blue-tongue skink

  • Drier woodlands and plains of southern Australia

  • Large, rough scales give appearance of pinecone

  • Tail resembles head to confuse predators

  • Autonomous tail - will grow back

  • Tail used as vital fat store during winter dry season

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