Two Tailed Lizard
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Category: Herpetofauna Native to the UK
Forum Name: Common Lizard
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Topic: Two Tailed Lizard
Posted By: GemmaJF
Subject: Two Tailed Lizard
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2014 at 9:50am
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I've seen lizards with two tails before where they have partially shed the original tail and the new growth makes a second, this one looks different though, like it has two original tails. uploads/21750/IMG_8087.jpg" rel="nofollow">  Anyone seen this before? |
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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2014 at 3:21pm
| that's very interesting - both tails have the look of originals rather than the cruder cartilaginous replacement, and both originate from the base of the tail. Amazing that the two tails have not hampered it and allowed its survival this long! you don't live near any nuclear power stations, do you...? |
Posted By: GemmaJF
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2014 at 5:32pm
| I can see Bradwell Nuclear Power Station from where I live Will, so not far away.... |
Posted By: Tom Omlette
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2014 at 8:46pm
Amazing!!!
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Posted By: Caleb
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2014 at 1:05pm
| Did it still look like that after mid-day yesterday? |
Posted By: GemmaJF
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2014 at 5:48pm
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Strangely Caleb by 11.00 yesterday morning, it looked like this! uploads/21750/3_Tails.jpg" rel="nofollow">   And at 11:45 in the morning it looked liked this! uploads/21750/3_Tails_&_8_Legs.jpg" rel="nofollow">   As soon as mid-day passed though, it seemed to make a full recovery????  |
Posted By: will
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2014 at 6:16pm
Gemma, that's fantastic ! just credible enough to make idiots like me actually believe it!! (great technical skills, too!)
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Posted By: Tom Omlette
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2014 at 8:39pm
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can i get away with saying i knew it was a hoax and was being ironic? tom
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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2014 at 6:19am
| ...sure you can, Tim - me too! my favourite April Fool this year was Copenhagen Zoo which claimed to have euthanased four ageing keepers and fed them to the lions after all the fuss with Marius the giraffe and the male lion and his two cubs. Nice sense of humour guys! |
Posted By: will
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2014 at 6:40pm
well Gemma, I was trying to restore some credibility by finding a two-tailed lizard, but all I could find today was what seems to be a two headed adder  ! |
Posted By: GemmaJF
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2014 at 7:20pm
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I'm sure you were not the only one taken in by it Will Lovely Shot and excellent timing, those combats only seem to last milliseconds.
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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2014 at 7:31pm
| Thanks Gemma - I'll put some up on Flickr. Yes, they sort out their combats very quickly in my experience - only once seen a fight that lasted twenty minutes, most of them over in 1 - 5 mins I think. Not in the interests of either party to prolong things, I suppose. |
Posted By: will
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2014 at 10:11pm
OK, Gemma - I've been working on this 'two-tailed lizard' thing - I found this one today (but it seems to have a couple of heads, too!) |
Posted By: GemmaJF
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2014 at 9:03am
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Good try Will, try the Sun, I'm sure they would fall for it
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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2014 at 8:51pm
| ...there was that photo somewhere in the press/BBC of two-headed and eight limbed frog which turned out to be, guess what ? a pair in amplexus... |
Posted By: GemmaJF
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2014 at 9:13pm
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I think I remember a mating ball too Will getting in the press a few years back. It was clear as day that it was a bunch of different animals with different markings.... |