Slow Worm

Anguis fragilis

Kingfisher

TQ4692 27/10/2021 ©Raymond Brown

Slow Worms may look like snakes, but they are actually legless lizards. Unlike snakes they blink. Snakes don't have eyelids so never blink. Snakes have pronounced forked tongues, those of Slow-worms differ by being notched. The head is connected to the body with no distinct join, whereas snakes normally have a pronounced neck region.

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