By Spooky on November 24th, 2023 Category: Animals
The blue-tongued skink, a lizard native to the Australian continent, has a rather unusual defense system – it sticks its bright-blue tongue out to predators and they infact run away, insomecases.
A subspecies of Tiliqua scincoides, the blue-tongued skink is one of just 5 animals understood to have blue tongues, the other being the chow chow petdog type, the giraffe, the Impala, and the Okapi. However, it is the just one understood for utilizing this unique physical function to daunt predators. When a blue-tongued skink feels threatened, it will start sticking out its blue tongue quickly, and the contrasting blue tongue versus the pink background of its mouth will really make some animals believe twotimes previously assaulting it. It sounds unusual, however there is a rational description behind this special defense method.
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Bright colors in animals tend to suggest that they are either toxic or poisonous, and while the blue-tongued skink is neither, its brilliant blue tongue can fool starving predators into thinking that it is. Dart frogs are the ideal example of the harmful and vibrant association in nature, and th