The Slow Worm Is Not a Worm
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard.
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The slow worm is neither a snake nor a worm but a legless lizard. Its round tongue and moving eyelids put it in the lizard category.
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Used to see these little guys all the time in England when I was a kid. Never do now... Hope they're doing alright!
I don't know about English wildflowers, but I started seeing more birds, reptiles, and insects in my backyard in the Southeastern US when I started growing native plants. I imagine that greater ecosystem restoration by cooperating with neighbors, spraying fewer pesticides, and keeping local green areas clean would lead to even better results. Animals are resilient, and if food and habitat is there, they will come.
havent seen a slow worm in a good 10 years, theyre really cool. certainly hope to see one again
Holy crap.
I just learn something new today.
Lizards blink, snakes don’t blink…
Holy crap. That is so cool lol
Except some geckos. Some species of geckos are the only lizards who can’t blink. But some geckos can blink.
That’s so fascinating lol
Yep! But it's only around 40 species of geckos, which are all in the Eublepharidae family (with the well-known leopard gecko as its poster child), that can blink vs well over 1500 species who can't. In fact, even the group of separately evolved* legless lizards that belong to the infraorder Gekkota, the Pygopodidae family, have no eyelids. The blinkers are definitely the oddballs in the gecko world. :)
*Legless lizards actually have evolved on separate occasions multiple times throughout natural history. Heck, technically snakes _are_ legless lizards as well, but I believe the point was to make things easier to understand... and then I'm not helping here lmao.
I never new about glass lizzards until I found one while gardening in my friends garden 4 or 5 years ago. It was small and so pretty
This episode is going to be so awesome and I cannot wait until it comes on 📺 for sure I will be watching this one, if this is the one coming on Sunday afternoon.
we always have them behind our house near the shed. they love to stay in piles of leafs.
Saw many while living in Stockholm Sweden. They called it copper snake. Once lifted up a board and found four 🍀
My garden needs some slow worms
Can't think of a better way to keep the pesky slugs in check
Where I come from, we call these glass lizards
I found on of those in my yard just a few days ago. I took it back into the woods where it would be safer.
I never heard of them!!! 😲😲 as the tongue flicked & closr up of face i thought it reminded me of the Komoto Dragon. So legless lizard surprised me!! I was expecting snake! Coolest video EVer!!❤❤❤ thank you
A few months ago I found a huge Slow Worm, it was like about 35-40cm long
Saw many in Sweden. They call them copper snake. Lifted up a board once and found four 🍀
Always good to see a moving intestine without polyps.
We in germany call them Blindschleiche😊 very common here
Interesting hunting skill, and it works~👍
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
wow
I need the full video of this Slow Worm.
in asmr
I saw that today
Votuporanga SP Brasil 🌹 auuudóru vídeos de animais parabéns pelo programa ❤❤❤❤❤
He's probably welcome in a garden filled with slugs! We used to see fuzzy caterpillars in the Summer all the time! They were yellow and if they were black it was supposed to mean a cold and snowy Winter. Nobody's seen them for ages and nobody knows what happened to them.
“No Snake has ever managed to make it to Ireland”
*Meanwhile St. Patrick staring down from heaven to ensure Ireland safety*
No those were "snakes" (pagans)
The slug is an Ambigolimax species, non native but pretty much introduced globally. Can be confused with Lehmannia marginata which is native.
St. Patrick wouldn't dare.
Members of the superfamily Anguoidea are more correctly referred to as "glass lizards", they are split into the families Anguidae (Old World Glass Lizards (contains Dopasia, Hyalosaurus, Pseudopus, and Anguis)) and Ophisauridae (New World Glass Lizards (contains Ophisaurus, Anniella, and Ophiodes)), glass lizards (superfamily Anguoidea) are most closely related to the superfamily Varanoidea, which includes the families Lathanotidae (Nagabatu and Fossil Relatives), Helodermatidae (Beaded Lizards), and Varanidae (Monitor Lizards), this makes varanoids and glass lizards the most derived superfamilies of the Anguimorpha infraorder.
St. Patrick wouldn't dare.