Eastern Blue-tongued Skink
Tiliqua scincoides
The adult Eastern Blue-tongued Skink is a heavy-bodied terrestrial skink of eastern Australia, common in open woodland, heath, grassland edges, and gardens. It is an omnivore, taking snails, insects, carrion, flowers, berries, and fungi with slow but persistent foraging. When threatened, it flattens its body, hisses, opens its mouth, and flashes a vivid blue tongue as a warning display. Its strong jaws can crush hard-shelled prey such as snails.
- Type
- Shell
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- Eastern Blue-tongued Skink Neonate
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- Eastern Blue-tongued Skink