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Acuity
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Any idea what this lizard is?
Third one to come out of our bodega in 3 years. Over 12 inches long...
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Cypress
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A Skink.
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Acuity
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Our gardener has an unmanly fear of them. Are they actually dangerous, or is this an "old gardener's tale"?
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captkw
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liz
HOLA, that's called a allagator lizard and where I (never grew up)was rasied in the summer could get up to a foot and a half and had a good bite that
us mountain kid's had fun giveing one to a city kid and they didnot know how to hold them and would get a little bite and scrare the hell out of
them,,LOL boulder creek,ca no not pelegrosso
and good to have around the garden...ps dont try a grab um by the tail,designed to break off,,If you wanna catch them,be fast and grab behind the
head/nech area...they love wood pile's...
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sancho
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I was going with Cypress's guess until I read captkw
reply, I'm going with aligator lizard, at least that is
the common term, I've seen them larger and fatter,
had them as pets when a kid, dangerous no
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BigOly
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For sure alligator lizard.
I have the scar on my hand to prove it!
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captkw
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lizard
ya,they have been known to draw blood and are really good bug hunter's...can sit still as long as they want/need to...they are on are side of the bug
war !! 
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Heather
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I used to have them around my house in San Diego...until we got the cat, she's a real good hunter!
My Mex. hubby has a phobia about lizards as well....he loves the kitty!
My phobia is mice, and we have none of those around either! Yea, Mia!
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David K
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Played with them as kids, theay are all over San Diego... Alligator lizard, and they can bite but have such tiny teeth that no seriuos harm can be
gotten from them... Their tails do detach if held onto... often see a cat with a wiggling lizard tail, but the lizard got away!
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mulegejim
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Acuity
Third one to come out of our bodega in 3 years. Over 12 inches long... |
The ones I remember as a kid also had a blue belly - so we called them "Blue Belly Lizards". Good bug hunters and can bite but mostly harmless. Tails
do detach. Jim
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Acuity
Our gardener has an unmanly fear of them. Are they actually dangerous, or is this an "old gardener's tale"? |
Best thing you could have for the garden! These carnivorous critters will consume bugs in a big way....and anything else that is around. Baby mice to
spiders. Also...... eat animals close to or greater than their own body length!
A very good thing to have around. Yes...the cats do a number on these lizards.....Hawks too.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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captkw
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blue belly
Blue belly's are different speices,,little smaller and dont bite in defense...we have them in baja and they are not as silver as the ones in ca.
alittle more brown/dark on the top...funny some folk's dont like snake's but like lizard's !! just a snake with legs...
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BigOly
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Blue-bellied lizards are
in the spiny lizard family. Different than alligator lizards. Alligator lizards do have small teeth but the large ones will clamp down on their prey
(or in my case the base of my thumb) and won't let go. When you are a little kid, that hurts a lot. We used to have lots of lizards where we live here
in LB, I miss them. Now we have all the neighbors cats and no lizards.
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captkw
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big bird
oly,,what is that cool looking bird in your avatar?
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güero
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Looks like the skink family to me but I've been wrong before. Used to have pet aligator lizards, they were a littly huskier and bigger scales. Just my
centavos, not worth a whole lot of beans as I only have personal experience and no education in the matter.
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Skipjack Joe
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Alligator Lizard.
I just came across this book. Looks like something worth getting. But $95 - ouch. I think it may be worth it.
Amphibians and reptiles of Baja California by Grisner
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Bob H
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I'd say Alligator Lizzard... we have seen them in our back yard in North County San Diego many times. Some of them over a foot long.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image...
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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motoged
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Can he do this?
http://www.wimp.com/lizardplaying/
Don't believe everything you think....
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David K
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That is hilarious!
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David K
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This book is a LOT less expensive and has color photos of them all... well a lot, if not all!
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