Since I am a volunteer docent at a similar zoo, I am familiar with the sheltopusik since we have one as well. Here’s another facts that makes legless lizards like the sheltopusik different from snakes: legless lizards have eyelids and can actually blink. Snakes do not have eyelids. If you look closely at the sheltopusiks in the video, you can see their eyelids.
I love legless lizards , I've been fascinated by them since I found my first slow worm (Anguis fragilis) as a kid here in the UK . They are a protected species here in the UK as unfortunately they are in decline due to our obsession with perfectly manicured gardens has put them at risk . I personally leave certain areas of my garden untouched or if it really needs trimming back I will go out very carefully and trim it back by hand .
I'm near sighted. I gotta get close to a snake just to check if it's got a "thick tongue and earholes" just so I can make sure, it's not actually a snake 😂
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Hi, I'm from Russia and Sheltopusiks sounds really funny! Because if i chose it's name in English, i've called him Zheltopusik. Because English haven't got letter "ж" ( it's sounds like "Zh"), and, of course, pusik sounds really funny! ( sorry for my mistakes, i'm only learning English:(
Why would you bring them to Australia, if they are not adapted to this climate? I live in Europe. We come across Blindworms occasionally in the Alps, when hiking. I assume, they are from the same family.
It's not that they're not adapted or that the Australian climate is especially dangerous to them (even less so in a climate controlled zoo enclosure). They just need a cold period for their "biological clocks" to realize it's spring and mating time.
They also have eyelids which no snakes have. The jaws don't articulate the way snakes do when they're eating either. And when you get down to the skeletal structure they're completely different from a snake.
@@prashantsaxena112 they’re also taxonomically related to snakes. On the family tree they aren’t very close to them (monitor lizards are the closest to snakes of the lizards, although snakes are technically just a large subgroup of lizards.
Although his tongue isn't supposed to be forked I thought his tongue looked forked...even slowed the video down to .25 and paused it and certainnly it appears forked...? why?
Genesis 3:14 14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Hey evolution.... How come,...there are no sea mammals that can breath underwater? some fish can gulp air ect... You need to get on that. Not telling you how to do your job, just people are starting to ask questions...
some fish can gulp air because almost all already have an organ that can do it (swim bladders) and said organ evolved into lungs in tetrapods. As well, aquatic mammals can not breath underwater because A, their bodies have nothing that can perform a function like that already (swim bladders however have always been capable of use for gulping air since they are initially developed), as well as the fact that they have only been around for a maximum of 60 million years. Likewise, it took longer for tetrapods to develop lungs. Point B being the fact that most marine mammals are adapted to hold their breath for extremely long periods, meaning there is no evolutionary pressure for them to have to breath water. Especially given the fact there is no reason for them not to go to the surface, given that a majority of pelagic species stay there, especially filter feeders, as that is where most plankton lives in the open ocean. There are also no predators above the water that bother them, given their large size, and the deep diving species are an exception in the group, not the rule.
