08/14/2022
Of the five lizards that you can find living in Ohio here is one of the more common ones! This little one likes to live in wooded areas with rocky outcroppings, log piles, and other places for them to crawl in and hide. This is the common five-lined skink! The five-lined skink like many lizards can drop its tail. Now, why would it want to do that you might ask? Well, it's a last-ditch effort of defense, they let go of the tail so the predator gets distracted and they scurry away to a hidey-hole. The skink can grow back the tail too, it just won't be the same. They are, as the name suggests, part of the skink family which has 3 members that call Ohio home. So here on World Lizard Day venture out into your local park or woods and keep an eye out for our scaly little friends!
