#blue-tongued lizard

[east-south]

don't be fooled. showing their tongue is in fact a threat display. they are being very scary right now. please take them seriously.

[creatureimages]

does anyone know what species of rat this is

[tilted-vision]

Went out to fill my chooks' water container and found instead this very pissed off, little blue-tongued lizard. He'd gotten stuck in the outside basin thing under the tap and even as I saved him, was all "I AN'T HAVING NONE OF THIS" and aggressively attacked whatever I brought near him to try and help him out.

I'm just cooing to him: "Come on! Come on now... LET ME HELP YOU YOU SILLY SCALEY BABY."

And he's just like: "I'LL FIGHT YOU. I AN'T NEED NO HUMAN. PISS OFF."

"YES YOU DO." So I manage to get him into this see-through plastic box so he proceeds to try and attack my hand through the plastic while I tsk and finally release him into a safe spot in the yard where the chooks won't find him but DAMN.

That little cutie wanted to maul my face.

STRAYA.

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Blotched blue-tongued lizard

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Blue-Tongued Lizard

Photograph by Kathy Parker, National Geographic

[animals-animals-animals]

Blue-tongued Skink (by axelfoley)