I wanted to know how you guys are telling reptiles apart, cos I can’t, except for a few, like skinks and chameleons.
I googled newt, salamander, lizard and gecko.
Didn’t find out much except that they’re all lizards, and that newts are a semi aquatic kind of salamander, and as adults like to stay in water. Also that geckos can be distinguished by their sticky paws. Hard to tell that in a picture.
Bearded dragons do look different… my great niece has one.
Google lens says this one is a black leopard gecko or a black velvet gecko, depending on the caption.
We had hundreds of newts in the small pond in our garden.
They leave the water when completely developed (still tiny then) and return for mating season.
They need it moist or they die.
We were living in Connecticut while the flag debate was raging in Canada.
My mother, although she eventually accepted it unreservedly, initially called it “the bread wrapper.”
“Raging” is not too strong a term.
Here is a CBC HISTORY LINK ARTICLE. There are also two pictures of other flag designs which, thank goodness, were passed over in favour of the “Maple Leaf.”
I used to have a drawer that would very occasionally get stuck like that on the ..um… key(?) of a can opener…
Funny, I don’t know what to call it. The thing.. the key or 3rd handle?… that you turn to open the can while it’s clamped by the handles.
It’s a heavy-ish manual can opener, and it would turn somehow in the drawer so that the key stuck up too high to pass through the opening…
All you could do was get the drawer to open an inch or two, slam it shut, and repeat till it would either open, or at least come far enough forward to stick something in and push the can opener down.
I’m embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to realise I could just stop storing the #$%! thing in a drawer.
I understand. We have a special drawer for those that don’t get along well with the others ~ like the potato masher (not used much these days, but must keep it just in case. Also the pizza cutter, egg slicer and electric knife. They all do fine in that drawer together.
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Those eyes!
that NOSE!
Now that’s a face you could trust.
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A childhood friend had a foreign Donald Duck comic. That’s how I know the Finnish for “click” is “nacks”
You never know when that knowledge might come in handy.
“Everyone on vacation in space… and in the middle of the sea!”
BTW, in Italy they call Mickey Mouse “Topolino”.
Its literal translation, though, is “Baby Mouse”.
Michael Sowa
Cover illustration of Esterhazy, the rabbit prince as drawn by Michael Sowa.
The story was co-written by Irene Dische, & Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
BUNNY!
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Cute little guy!
all i can say is…..EEKKKK!
Gecko of some kind?
No; that’s a newt.
May I ask what criteria you are using?
I wanted to know how you guys are telling reptiles apart, cos I can’t, except for a few, like skinks and chameleons.
I googled newt, salamander, lizard and gecko.
Didn’t find out much except that they’re all lizards, and that newts are a semi aquatic kind of salamander, and as adults like to stay in water. Also that geckos can be distinguished by their sticky paws. Hard to tell that in a picture.
Bearded dragons do look different… my great niece has one.
Google lens says this one is a black leopard gecko or a black velvet gecko, depending on the caption.
I noticed the tail. A Newts tail os rounder and a Geckos is flatter.
Thanks.
But I can’t tell from the top if this guy’s tail is fat and round or just wide and flat.
There were a bunch of pictures identifying it as a black knight leopard gecko … but most are also from the top.
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Here’s a batch of them (PostImage finally decided to work)
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By the way I was surprised to see people selling them for hundreds of dollars. I had no idea!
Those are newts. What a scam.
I see the toes now. That is NOT a geckos foot. No way that is going to get a grip on a flat surface, like a gecko do. 🙂
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard
We had hundreds of newts in the small pond in our garden.
They leave the water when completely developed (still tiny then) and return for mating season.
They need it moist or they die.
The Greylady needed an elective to round out her degree. She decided to take a course in Herpatology.
Guess who got elected to help collect snakes.
Tigressy did save me the trip down to our reference library.
I did NOT like the ending of this film.
Someone needs to adjust their antidepressant.
Love the Rita Hayworth mix!
with the name of ‘Rita’, you know she’s going to be great!
You may be biased…
We were living in Connecticut while the flag debate was raging in Canada.
My mother, although she eventually accepted it unreservedly, initially called it “the bread wrapper.”
“Raging” is not too strong a term.
Here is a CBC HISTORY LINK ARTICLE. There are also two pictures of other flag designs which, thank goodness, were passed over in favour of the “Maple Leaf.”
Being from Oregon, I ask: What’s wrong with the beaver flag?
🙂
I used to have a drawer that would very occasionally get stuck like that on the ..um… key(?) of a can opener…
Funny, I don’t know what to call it. The thing.. the key or 3rd handle?… that you turn to open the can while it’s clamped by the handles.
It’s a heavy-ish manual can opener, and it would turn somehow in the drawer so that the key stuck up too high to pass through the opening…
All you could do was get the drawer to open an inch or two, slam it shut, and repeat till it would either open, or at least come far enough forward to stick something in and push the can opener down.
I’m embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to realise I could just stop storing the #$%! thing in a drawer.
From “wiki-How”
Thanks! Yes, one just like that. And I guess I mean the handle was what kept getting stuck.
Another site called the levers here, the “handles”, and what we’re calling the handle, the “key”.
I’ll go with this, though.
I use a spatula whenever that happens.
How that opens cans is a mystery to me. 🙄
that’s why i have a beautiful large ‘tool’ holder sitting on the counter.
Potato Masher!
But, but, but …. that’s the drawer it belongs in!
That’s what I thought too.
It had to be in there, with the other kitchen implements.
It didn’t fit in the old crock with the wooden spoons, so where else would it be?
It wasn’t allowed to roam the kitchen (or possibly the world) on its own!
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So back in the drawer I’d confine it, without considering the consequences… until they occurred, of course.
One day I gave it its freedom.
It didn’t run away, and we get along better nowadays.
I understand. We have a special drawer for those that don’t get along well with the others ~ like the potato masher (not used much these days, but must keep it just in case. Also the pizza cutter, egg slicer and electric knife. They all do fine in that drawer together.
I’ve been waiting for GoComics to work, meanwhile googling things like geckos and can-openers, which works, but slowly.
I give up…. good night all, or to most of you… good morning!
boy! that Claude thinks he’s soooo clever. maybe he should ‘borrow one of Cleo’s jackhammers!
Or a bazooka.
Now he needs to fix the dent in the counter. Why did he even think stomping on the counter would open the drawer? Oh well, got his exercise for today!