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Range: Solomon Islands Habitat: Dense Tropical Forests Natural Diet: Herbivore Diet at Rain Forest: Romaine lettuce, various greens including Collard, Mustard and occasionally Turnip. Fruits such as banana are provided fresh daily. Youngsters are occasionally fed processed baby food based on fruit. Size: Males and females are virtually indistinguishable from each other, each is about 18-20 inches in total length, the Solomon Island skink is the largest of all living skinks. RainForest Facts: A
fascinating lizard that gives birth to live babies, the normal birth is one
youngster, on occasion a second is born. The prehensile-tail skink
faces serious pressures from loss of habitat in it's natural range.
Status in Wild: Numbers are rapidly declining due to loss of habitat. Not thought to be threatened at this time, exportation has been banned from the primary islands. |
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During
World War II the animals natural range was the site of extremely serious
fighting between the Japanese and the Allies, much loss of habitat occurred
during the early 1940's