Let it wander around under your supervision, and pick it up and down several times, and you will soon have a very big, tame and friendly skink. Each blue tongued skink has an individual personality and some may never become as trusting as others. A number of different species of the blue tongued skinks inhabit parts of New Guinea, most of Australia, and the island of Tasmania. The different species occupy a wide variety of habitats ranging from interior deserts and savannahs to the subtropical and tropical forest, and high into the alpine zones of mountains. They are extremely variable in pattern and coloration and are banded or blotched or streaked in various earth tones of brown, ochre, brick red, orange, gray and black.
Most specimens have a dark temporal streak on the side of the head, running through the eye.
They have litters of 10-20. The newborn young are about 5 and are miniature replicas of their parents. This species inhabits a limited range in warm tropical areas of southern New Guinea. They have 5-15 fairly large and robust young. The babies are more vividly colored than the adults, and are the fastest growing of the blue tongues.