Emerald Skink facts: not always green! | Animal Fact Files

Emerald skinks, or emerald tree skinks (or green tree skinks!), are skinks that live throughout Indo-Pacific islands. There are three (or four, depending on who you ask) living species of emerald tree skinks - though not all the species appear green! These lizards are common in human settles around where they live but they spend most of their time in trees - they're arboreal animals!

Scientific Name: Genus - Lamprolepis
Range: Indo-Pacific islands
Size: up to four inches (10cm) in body length
Diet: fruit, nectar, arthropods like wasps, beetles, and ants as well as other invertebrates
Lifespan: 5 years in the wild

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[perlommel]

Thanks for making the video. Keep up the good work

[fasligand]

Emerald Skink sounds like the name of an old but distinguished excentric gentleman

[kodimann]

Do the babies change color over a period of time?
Also, are the skinks in the Solomons only green? I've been doing as much research as possible but I haven't found anything definitive that says Solomon Island ETS are only green, however I have a few breeders that say they are.

[warthogpower]

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