What's a Sheltopusik | Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under
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- The Sheltopusik is the world's largest legless lizard and two them living at the Taronga Zoo have recently mated.
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What's a Sheltopusik | Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under
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I can tell that the researcher is very enthusiastic about his subject. Great job!
Since I am a volunteer docent at a similar zoo, I am familiar with the sheltopusik since we have one as well. Here’s another facts that makes legless lizards like the sheltopusik different from snakes: legless lizards have eyelids and can actually blink. Snakes do not have eyelids. If you look closely at the sheltopusiks in the video, you can see their eyelids.
if i ever went to this zoo this would be the first place i would ever go
It’s great to know about their successful breeding~ Hopefully, the young Sheltopusiks grow healthy~👍
Thank you for sharing this video!🤗
I love legless lizards , I've been fascinated by them since I found my first slow worm (Anguis fragilis) as a kid here in the UK . They are a protected species here in the UK as unfortunately they are in decline due to our obsession with perfectly manicured gardens has put them at risk . I personally leave certain areas of my garden untouched or if it really needs trimming back I will go out very carefully and trim it back by hand .
The zoo is amazing, I was there in 1993. A place to never forget
He’s so proud 🥲 Beautiful creatures!
Gorgeous legless lizards!
I'm near sighted. I gotta get close to a snake just to check if it's got a "thick tongue and earholes" just so I can make sure, it's not actually a snake 😂
These creatures are so precious! Omg! I love them! 🥰🥰🥰
Its presumably amazing.....
Желтопузиков много в Крыму, я оттуда. Люблю их
It's acctually appealing to see and hold such species in your hands .
A C T U A L L Y... 🤣✔🤣
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Australia is amazing. Would love to visit one day.
It makes sense, they have lizard heads.
They are so gorgeous! ❤️
Well I never!!!!.... Always something to learn about nature
I have a skink and I can see how lizards eventually evolved into snakes. Skinks have tiny legs and they are very snake like for a lizard.
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Awesome
Secrets of the zoo is so interesting 😜
Hi, I'm from Russia and Sheltopusiks sounds really funny! Because if i chose it's name in English, i've called him Zheltopusik. Because English haven't got letter "ж" ( it's sounds like "Zh"), and, of course, pusik sounds really funny! ( sorry for my mistakes, i'm only learning English:(
🤣 And your English is fine.🇨🇦
Seems the other difference from snakes is eyelids. These guys can blink.
You’re right.
Nerfed snakes
European glass lizard.
Crickey mate!
Kinda cute
cool
Do they move using mechanims similar to snakes?
MechaNISMS?
I see them everyday here in Austria 🤣
WHERE'S the last part of the vid on yt? Anyone?
Interesting. That expandable body reminds me those expandable luggage. You know the one you unzip on the side to fit more items?
Wow,..😬
If Nat Geo ever answers ,I would be very glad......who is the lady speaking? Her voice is really soothing....😌😌
That lady is Naomi Watts who's voice your hearing
@@ianbeech6853 thank you
I've never had one in my entire life I don't know how they do it ??).
ach no to padalec po prostu, znam
Zoologist: The other difference is he's got earholes. So he has external ear openings. No snake in the world has external ear openings.
Evolution: Hmmmmmm..... Next time dear, next time.
They also have eyelids while snakes don’t.
Is it tattoo or blood clot on the ring finger of right hand of that guy?
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Really suspensive
Why would you bring them to Australia, if they are not adapted to this climate? I live in Europe. We come across Blindworms occasionally in the Alps, when hiking. I assume, they are from the same family.
It's not that they're not adapted or that the Australian climate is especially dangerous to them (even less so in a climate controlled zoo enclosure). They just need a cold period for their "biological clocks" to realize it's spring and mating time.
In this video I can't see the ears but I'm close enough to see the head is shape different
Basilisk
From the Harry Potter series 😂
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He didn’t say what they eat.
Invertebrates like beetles, crickets, spiders, snails, and sometimes even mice
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Mice? Wow
@@jaydoublegee2831 sometimes
1:31 so the just having ear holes makes them lizard.... and no legs , a long body, sticking out tongue don't make them snake
They also have eyelids which no snakes have. The jaws don't articulate the way snakes do when they're eating either. And when you get down to the skeletal structure they're completely different from a snake.
@@jasongoodrich7444 thats a better explaination
@@prashantsaxena112 they’re also taxonomically related to snakes. On the family tree they aren’t very close to them (monitor lizards are the closest to snakes of the lizards, although snakes are technically just a large subgroup of lizards.
@@arizonii3747 ok
They can also eat plants, while snakes can't.
Although his tongue isn't supposed to be forked I thought his tongue looked forked...even slowed the video down to .25 and paused it and certainnly it appears forked...? why?
lizard
in between cousin with face like a lizard / limb of a snake
snake
I would like all snakes to be like this lizard instead
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Third
Daddy
Legless lizard= snake! Thats it!
A lizard??? That thing looks & acts like a snake…..😬😩
Take a look at the eyes. They have eyelids and can blink while snakes don’t have eyelids.
Hey evolution.... How come,...there are no sea mammals that can breath underwater? some fish can gulp air ect... You need to get on that. Not telling you how to do your job, just people are starting to ask questions...
some fish can gulp air because almost all already have an organ that can do it (swim bladders) and said organ evolved into lungs in tetrapods. As well, aquatic mammals can not breath underwater because A, their bodies have nothing that can perform a function like that already (swim bladders however have always been capable of use for gulping air since they are initially developed), as well as the fact that they have only been around for a maximum of 60 million years. Likewise, it took longer for tetrapods to develop lungs. Point B being the fact that most marine mammals are adapted to hold their breath for extremely long periods, meaning there is no evolutionary pressure for them to have to breath water. Especially given the fact there is no reason for them not to go to the surface, given that a majority of pelagic species stay there, especially filter feeders, as that is where most plankton lives in the open ocean. There are also no predators above the water that bother them, given their large size, and the deep diving species are an exception in the group, not the rule.
It’s a snake
Genesis 3:14
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.