What is prehensile-ocasted skink?
Prehensile-tailed Skink, Corucia Zebrata, is also known as Skink Ocasked and Skink Solomon. It is a large, herbivorous reptile weighing from 14 to 28 ounces (about 397 to 794 gm) with a prehensile tail that uses branches and trees to grasp and hang. The lifetime of this illuminating is from 15 to 25 years. C. Zebrata comes from tropical rainforests on Solomon Islands and Papua -Nové Guineji; However, its extent has expanded significantly due to the trade with pets. Prehensile-ocasted skink is active from dusk through dawn and is shy and secret. It is a strong lizard with sharp claws, but they are affected by snakes, big mammals and people, both for food and pet shop.
c. Zebrata has adapted well and many of the available specimens are kept captive. They make a large cage with sufficient branches that allow them to rise and pause. This breed can reach a length of 32 inches (approximately 81.3 cm) in the wild, from which it is about Polion the preliminary tail; They usually have less in captivity. Prehensile-ocas-tailed skink comes from the equator, so it needs light for 12 hours a day, daylight temperatures between 80 and 90 ° Fahrenheit (26.7 ° to 32.2 ° Celsius) and evening temperatures of about 70 ° Fahrenheit).
Thehumid environment is necessary for these tropical reptiles and this environment can be maintained by fogging the substrate and any plants in the cage. Live plantings in the cage help maintain moisture; However, this herbivore will be fodder on living plants, so it is necessary to avoid toxic plants. Prehensile-ocasted skink can be fed with a wide range of green, fruits and vegetables and hard-boiling eggs.
While they are naturally ashamed and retired, it can be interacted with a prescribed skin that is often processed, and even seems to enjoy interaction. When they feel threatened, they adapt defensive posture, hissing and maybite. Their jaws are strong and can give a strong bites.
If the right environment is provided, SKINKS will be pre -tail in captivity. It praises during the rainy season that can be simulated by a large fog. Prehensile-ocasted skinks give birth to a live young after six to eight months of pregnancy. A woman may have two offspring, but most often she will have only one. The young are able to feed and take care of themselves relatively soon after birth, but spend about a year with their parents in nature, where they are protected by mother and father.