Middle: Competition amongst lizards for fruit is so fierce in some places that ripe berries are plucked straight from the plant. Here a normally terrestrial shore skink has climbed a metre and a half up the smooth, vertical stems of kawakawa to reach ripe fruit. Any fruit that were dislodged were rapidly snatched up by other skinks and frequent fights developed for choice morsels. Photo: Tony Whitaker
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Forest and Bird, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 August 1987, Page 21
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67Middle: Competition amongst lizards for fruit is so fierce in some places that ripe berries are plucked straight from the plant. Here a normally terrestrial shore skink has climbed a metre and a half up the smooth, vertical stems of kawakawa to reach ripe fruit. Any fruit that were dislodged were rapidly snatched up by other skinks and frequent fights developed for choice morsels. Photo: Tony Whitaker Forest and Bird, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 August 1987, Page 21
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