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Common Slowworm

Anguis fragilis

The Common Slowworm is a legless lizard that looks like a snake but is actually a lizard! It has shiny, smooth skin and loves to hide under rocks and in grass.

Lebensraum: Grasslands

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The Common Slowworm is a legless lizard, often brown, grey, or bronze, with smooth, shiny scales. Females may have dark stripes or spots on their sides. Unlike snakes, it possesses movable eyelids and visible ear openings.

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Common Slowworm
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Common Slowworm

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Interessante Fakten

It's a legless lizard, not a snake, with eyelids that blink!

Slowworms can live for over 50 years, making them very old lizards!

Their skin is so smooth and shiny it looks like polished metal!

They give birth to live young, not eggs, just like mammals!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Tail Escape

Common Slowworm can detach its tail to distract predators, allowing it to slither away to safety.

Fähigkeit

Underground Navigator

Common Slowworm can burrow through loose soil and leaf litter using its smooth body to find food and shelter.

Fähigkeit

Live Birth Giver

Common Slowworm has the unique ability to give birth to live young, bypassing the need for eggs.

Fähigkeit

Ancient Age

Common Slowworm can live for many decades, making it one of the longest-lived lizards on Earth.

Maße und Details

Länge
30-50 cm
Gewicht
0.05-0.1 kg
Lebenserwartung
15-30 Jahre
Top Speed
0.8 km/h
Gelegegröße
3-20
Brutzeit
120-150 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

They feast on soft-bodied garden pests like slugs and worms!

Hauptnahrung

  • Slugs
  • Earthworms
  • Snails
  • Caterpillars
  • Spiders
  • Woodlice

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Garden Snail

Helix aspersa

A primary food source for slowworms.

eats

Spanish Slug

Arion lusitanicus

Preys on these common garden slugs.

eaten by

Blackbird

Turdus merula

Birds of prey and garden birds hunt young slowworms.

eaten by

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

A common predator in its habitat.

eaten by

European Hedgehog

Erinaceus europaeus

Hedgehogs occasionally prey on slowworms.

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If you see a Slowworm, watch it from a distance and don't try to touch it.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Common Slowworm?

30-50 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Common Slowworm?

0.05-0.1 kg

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Common Slowworm?

15-30 Jahre

Was ist der/die/das top Speed von Common Slowworm?

0.8 km/h

Was frisst Common Slowworm?

They feast on soft-bodied garden pests like slugs and worms!

Wo findet man Common Slowworm normalerweise?

Grasslands

Wie jagt Common Slowworm?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das gelegegröße von Common Slowworm?

3-20

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