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weloveourmonkeys · Contributing Member Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 114

any body know why our blue tongue skink (NERO) does this to wax worms, and eat's meal worms and other food ..down in one Razz

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Mememe · Site Moderator Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 2141

I have heard of monitors doing this with certain food, it's too kill the food I think, and perhaps the wriggly-ness of the waxy means the bluey wants to kill it?
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JStroud · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

Most of the larger skinks, like blue tongues and shinglebacks, will do this. I guess its mainly because they are so slow they have to make sure the prey item is dead before swallowing, because if it 'got away' in the wild there wouldn't be much of a chance to catch it again. Funny watching shinglebacks do it with pre-killed pinkies, they go on for ages Cool

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