James, I enjoyed the interlude, thank you. It's part of what makes this list so much fun and like a casual gathering of virtual friends huddled around the last dying embers of civilisation (i've been watching Battlestar Galactica and we've got an election coming up in the UK, so I'm a bit 'end of days' at the moment!).
However, if the lizard doesn't make it into the next DIWO, I'll be very dissapointed ;-) best Mark On 6 April 2010 20:19, James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry to go on about this. Compare my picture with these: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/282.shtml > > very obviously sick. > > > > > > On Tue, April 6, 2010 20:08, James Morris wrote: > > > > Well the RSPCA came out and took it. They said they couldn't release it > as > > it was, being too slow moving to survive. It took little effort to > > capture, it barely moved, but despite this it was the most lively I'd > seen > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, April 6, 2010 19:04, simon longo wrote: > >> I know these lizards from italy, there are many there and they come out > >> when > >> it gets warmer, I have never seen one in UK so I wonder how this one got > >> here, maybe a sign of climate changes. When the weather is chill they go > >> in > >> hibernation, and this one seems still in hibernating state, it will > >> regain > >> energy once the temperature rise. this is what I think it is... > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Here is an image of a lizard: > >>> > >>> http://jwm-art.net/art/image/lizard.jpg > >>> > >>> The lizard is in our garden shed. It has been sat there for well over a > >>> week now. It is still alive. I don't know what it is doing. Sometimes > >>> it > >>> turns around though I never see it move. Sometimes it's tail is hanging > >>> off the edge, other times, like in this image, it's tail is laid out > >>> straight behind it. > >>> > >>> Today I watched it for five minutes or so and saw the first sign of > >>> life > >>> I've seen: something moved near the rear of it's head - I don't know > >>> what > >>> as I know nothing about lizard anatomy - if it were a fish I'd say it's > >>> gills moved. > >>> > >>> I wonder if it is going to shed its skin. I don't know. Would it like a > >>> drink of water? Why is it there? What is it doing? > >>> > >>> I might try emailing the RSPCA or some other wild life charity > >>> requesting > >>> advice. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> NetBehaviour mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Skype: Dithernoise > >> > >> UK: 0044 (0) 7887561945 / IT: 00393490910263 > >> > >> www.simonlongo.com / www.dithernoise.net / www.visual-rhythms.net > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NetBehaviour mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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