i found one of these on my run last night. he was on the sidewalk and seemed to be freaking out.. slithering but going nowhere.. when i stopped to investigate, he actually started to slide BACKWARDS, towards the busy road. unacceptable. i started to worry that he was blind or something, but his eyes seemed fine...
so i picked him up and started jogging over to where i feed the cats, since they have a big yard there.
the lizard kept slithering around in my hands wildly, twisting himself around my hand and fingers..
and then, SNAP! his lower half popped off, fell onto the sidewalk, and continued to flail around on the sidewalk.
now, i think it's real cool that they can do this and all. what a neat trick! tossing off half you body to throw off the predators! but i've never had it happen IN MY HAND before. startling, and kinda icky.
he was fine once i set him in the grass, though. weird little creature.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
