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A blue tail skink - aka the five lined skink - that was actually following me as I walked along. When I stopped and knelt down to take a shot he ran right up and posed for this and then disappeared into a crack in the concrete. "Blue-tailed skinks are usually about 4 to 8 centimeters long. When they become frightened they have the ability to pop their tail off and it will continue to wiggle and distract their predator while they run away. When young they have a dark black body with bright yellow stripes leading from the back of the neck down to the meeting of the bright blue tail. As the juvenile males age, they lose their yellowish stripes and their back starts to become a brownish black color, and they begin to grow a reddish color underneath the neck during the mating seasons. Females usually keep their blue tail for their whole life." Thanks for any comment or critique -