blue-tongued

Everywhere she looked, a different type of lizard looked back: chameleons, anoles, blue-tongued skinks, even a real bearded dragon.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

“Actually,” Bernard said, coming to a stop in front of the blue-tongued skinks.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

Everywhere she looked, a different type of lizard looked back: chameleons, anoles, blue-tongued skinks, even a real bearded dragon.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

“Actually,” Bernard said, coming to a stop in front of the blue-tongued skinks.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

Everywhere she looked, a different type of lizard looked back: chameleons, anoles, blue-tongued skinks, even a real bearded dragon.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

“Actually,” Bernard said, coming to a stop in front of the blue-tongued skinks.

WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

The FBI is working on it, but just last week another blue-tongued lizard went missing from the Oregon Zoo.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

For numberless years a myna had astounded travelers to the caravansary with its ability to spew indecencies in ten languages, and before the fight broke out everyone assumed the old blue-tongued devil on its perch by the fireplace was the one who maligned the giant African with such foulness and verve.

Excerpt: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon 2007

Thus, the hotspot contains classic examples of relatively recent adaptive radiation typical of oceanic islands, such as the white-eyes (family Zosteropidae) and monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae), but also carries some odd colonizers from times past such as the giant prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), whose closest living relatives are the blue-tongued skinks (genus Tiliqua) of Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.

Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

I had to laugh imagining the reactions of all the other people walking serenely through the park as they were passed by an irate Smurf and her merry band of blue-tongued dogs.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008