### animal | vertebrate | reptile | lizard:

Skink
* All skinks are lizards with smooth and shiny scales
  - turtles
  - require ultraviolet lighting to maintain good health
* Many skinks are carnivorous , which means they eat meat
  - have blue tails
* Most skinks are nervous animals that take cover if they feel even slightly threatened
  - eat insects
  - grow tails
  - has-part skin
* Most skinks have blue tails
  - bright blue tails
  - limbs
  - necks
  - stripes
  - the ability to rejuvenate their tails
  - triangular heads
  - yellowish stripes
* Most skinks live on food
  - over years
* Most skinks reach ages
  - maturity
  - sexual maturity
* Most skinks see little sunlight
* Some skinks are plastrons.
* Some skinks belong to families
  - genus
  - can and do eat millipedes
  - emerge from hibernation
* Some skinks feed on ants
  - plants and fruits
* Some skinks have blood
  - dry places
  - scars
  - like to burrow
* Some skinks live in colonies
  - rainforests
* Some skinks thrive in captive environments
  * are different from other lizards. They have very small legs and necks. Their tails can grow back when part of it is cut off. This is called 'regeneration'
* also live buried under desert sands.
* are a family of lizards widely distributed across Australia
  - active predators, hunting and eating a variety of insects and small invertebrates
  - dark
  - food for a variety of larger predators
  - generally carnivorous and in particular insectivorous
* are lizards while salamanders are amphibians
  - with large shiny scales and usually a relatively thick body and small limbs
  - masters at diving into grass and disappearing
  - probable food items of a wide variety of snakes, birds, and mammals
* are small lizards
  - reptiles many enjoy keeping as pets
  - smooth-skinned, sleek and shiny, with small legs
  - still common on Guam, but several species no longer exist on the island
  - the largest lizard family
* are very different in that they like to hide
  - secretive lizards
* can occur in surprising numbers in areas of good habitat.
* digest food.
* enjoy large areas with a lot of leaves and soft dirt.
* have a small mouth, in some cases hiding a colored tongue
  - stout body with relatively small limbs and a thick, short tail
  - dark-colored bodies with a colored stripe or stripes running the length of their body
  - escape mechanisms
  - powerful mouths and are capable of inflicting a painful bite
  - short snouts and small eyes
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* inhabit habitats.
* lack the ability to change colors.
* prefer open sandy areas which have largely disappeared in the local area.
* prepare their nests in moist soil under objects in the garden.
* primarily eat insects.
* require a somewhat humid environment
  - both a warm and cool end of their tank
* tend to be territorial
  - get a lot of sand and debris in their water
* usually are solitary animals, living secretive lives until mating season
  - have between two and five young at yearly intervals
+ Skink, What skinks eat: Lizards
  * Many skinks are carnivorous, which means they eat meat. Some types of skinks eat both plants and meat, making them omnivores, or things that eat both plants and meat.

Skink lizard
* Some skink lizards suffer from infection
  - respiratory infection
* have overlapping scales that are usually smooth and contain small plates of bone.

### animal | vertebrate | reptile | lizard | skink:

Prairie skink
* Some prairie skinks emerge from hibernation.
* are secretive creatures spending most of their time hidden under some form of cover.
* have escape mechanisms

Small lizard
* Some small lizards live for years.
* are very quick and sometimes get loose in the classroom.
* live under logs and rocks.