Legless lizards do not have scutes on their underside. These specialized scales are called scutes. If you look at the underside of a snake, you will see runglike, wider scales that are different from the scales on the rest of their bodies. You can easily see the external ear openings on a legless lizard, just like lizards with legs.
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You can watch a full video of a European legless lizard eating canned dog food below: External ear openingsĪnyone who has kept snakes knows that these reptiles have no visible ear holes. You can also feed your legless lizard ground meat, such as a high-quality dog food, and scrambled eggs. They do well with crickets, roaches, and superworms, for instance. For domestically kept lizards, you can feed them many of the same feeder insects as other lizards. In the wild, European legless lizards tend to eat a lot of snails and slugs, but these are hard to find parasite-free sources for.
Their diet, as you’ll see, is a bit different from snakes, so they don’t mind. It basically means that the bones in their heads can move quite a bit, which is in part what allows snakes to open their jaws so wide to capture and swallow prey.Ī legless lizard cannot do this. Snakes have a feature called kinetic skulls. Legless lizards, on the other hand, have movable eyelids. It may seem like a simple thing, but snakes have fused eyelids that they cannot blink. One of the features that distinguishes legless lizards from snakes is their ability to blink. Take a look at what makes a legless lizard unique… Movable eyelids Yes, legless lizards and snakes are both reptiles. After all, what else is there to separate a snake from a lizard if not a lack of legs? Quite a few things, it turns out. The European legless lizard is a somewhat misunderstood exotic pet.
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