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Zoom the Zoo - Prehensile-Tailed Skink

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prehensile-tailed skink with tongue sticking out sitting on a stick

 

Join us and Elmwood Park Zoo in our July series of programs especially for SummerQuest: Tails and Tales!

Week 4, we will be learning all about the Prehensile-Tailed Skink. (Alternate animal will be the Blue Tongued Skink if the Prehensile-Tailed Skink is unavailable).

In this 30 minute program, we'll meet an animal ambassador, enjoy a lesson on the Prehensile-Tailed Skink’s natural history, and have time at the end to ask questions.

Prehensile-tailed skinks have numerous names. A few include monkey-tailed skinks, Solomon Island skinks and Solomon Island green tree skink. They are the only skinks with a prehensile tail, meaning it can be wrapped around branches for balance. They are the largest species of skink and the only completely herbivorous skinks. The skink will get most of its water intake from its diet of foliage, fruit, and vegetables, but may rarely descend to the ground for water.

To register for this program, and receive the Zoom link and password, email wernersvillepl@berks.lib.pa.us

We hope to see you virtually!

Event Type:

STEM

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