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Skink
Alpine Water-skink - Eulamprus
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There are five groups of lizard in Australia, the goannas, the geckoes, the dragons, the legless lizards and the skinks. The skinks are the most numerous and most varied. They live everywhere from the deserts to the coast to the alps and range in shape from large, thick-bodied blue-tongues to the slenderest of animals with only the tiniest of legs.
The Alpine Water Skink, as its name suggests, is found in the high country of Victoria and New South Wales, in and around swamps and waterways. It usually feeds on insects and on a warm day will often approach a human visitor and take food scraps from a nearby rock or log. If you try to catch the animal, however, it will very quickly hide beneath a rock, or if you do manage to catch it by the tail, it will leave the wriggling tail behind as a prize.
The Alpine Water Skink doesn't lay eggs, instead it gives birth to live young.
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