ABOUT LIZARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 25

ABOUT LIZARDS

■♦ The only reptiles in the British Isles are lizards and snakes, and of each there are three native kinds. Of the lizards, the common lizard lives almost everywhere in Britain -from Land's End to John o' Groats, and in Ireland, too, where it is the only reptile. Sand lizards are larger, more handsome creatures- than these, but are only to be found in England in a few scattered spots soujh of the Thames, and on the Lancashire coast, whilst the last species, the slow-worm, is found throughout Great Britain. This little creature has no legs, and so looks more like a snake than a Hazard. The slow-worm is harmless; and feeds almost entirely on garden slugs. The absence of limbs is not an uncommon feature in lizards, mariy of which have taken tf burrowing and come to look like the arch- burrowers, earthworms, but, though, the majority walk on four legs, lizards have developed many other modes of locomotion. The Australian frilled lizards run on^their hind limbs only, but the Malayan flying lizards live in the tree tops and have, little wings with which they glide from bough to bough.

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