With the Yakka skink (Egernia rugosa) and the Ornamental snake (Denisonia maculata) making a big splash in the news headlines of late, being unfairly vilified for the eminent collapse of an uneconomic mining proposal, It’s a good time to introduce you to them 🙂 Yakka skink (Egernia rugosa) The Yakka skink is a large skink…
Anyone who has worked in wildlife management around the brigalow belt for long enough will know how different the golden-tailed geckos (Strophurus taenicauda) they find can look – thus it will come as no surprise that in 2012 they were split into 3 subspecies. This spilt was done on the basis of scalation, genetic differences…