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I was at my neighbor's house today and we found a lizard. it was in the cabinets above her sink watching her do dishes. she saw it and screamed. she doesnt like reptiles very much so I caught it. I put it in a tupperware so I could take pictures of it for you guys. It it a skink, and if so what kind? it's tail is broken in a few places and it was about 7 inches snout to tail length
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it looks like a five lined skink..wicked cool. i wish we had wild lizards in massachusetts. theres suposed to be 5 lined skinks here to but non have been spoted since the 1800s I guess. nice find, you plan on keeping it or releasing it. from the looks of the pictures it doesn't look like it has a problem eating and it looks really "friendly"..lol
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i thought so too, but the five-lineds in alabama have blue tails
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Re: Wild Skink?

i let him go. there's a river behind my house and I put him on the bank near the woods
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Re: Wild Skink?

probably the best course of action.
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Re: Wild Skink?

Juvenile 5 lined skinks have blue tails, once they mature the blue fades.
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Re: Wild Skink?

also that one look like it has a regrown tail and the new tail never looks like the orginal.
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its tail looked like it was broken in a few places all the way up to the base
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