Here's another Aussie special! Delmas are legless lizards and there are about 45 species of them in Australia and Papua New Guinea. I believe 22 of them are endemic to Australia. Some are more endangered than others.

This short video gives you a great overview on delmas and how to know them apart from snakes. They are cuties!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZFyQqUVoQA

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Amazing!

Non-danger-noodles!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Ooh a spicy one this week!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (7 children)

    Watched the video. Lizards seem so much more friendly than snakes. I think its the rounded tongue for me, just perceive that as less threatening, sorry snakes.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Snakes are cute when they just wrap around your wrist and have a look about. Not the Eastern Browns though.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    That's right, you should not handle snakes unless you know what you are doing.

    The trouble with some of the harmless delmas is that they look like brown snakes and are killed by people who know no better.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Lol, these little guys are definitely innocuous but you wouldn't call goannas 'friendly', for example. Goannas' bite is so full of bacteria it can cause serious infections, let alone if their claws got into you. Similarly there are snakes harmless to people and also venomous snakes. It is a matter of perception and what we have been conditioned to believe about different species. Being aware that this is the case can help us not be so harmful to them, not only in how we encroach into their habitats but in how we inflict violence on them. We are a lot more dangerous to wildlife than they are to us. As the video says, just let them be and they will not bother us. And, I'll repeat, if we question our perceptions and realise that they are prejudiced by the way we have been educated or indoctrinated we have a greater chance of being fair and respectful.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    conditioned to believe about different species.

    Yeah, i tried to communicate that its definitely a me thing in that comment.


    So a few yeara back i worked with a few Brazillian guys. Somehow this snake, it was a beautiful green, got into a closed off garden there at work. As I came out to see there these two drongos are waving a twig in the snakes face. The snake was hissing and rearing up, and I asked them "why they were doing that?", their answer "oh, bit of fun." Needless to say I told them not to bother it and we got a snake catcher to come and take it away later that day.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's great you were there to educate them. Hopefully they now know better and can also educate others.

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