Ho visto questo [dead] serpente(?) su un sentiero alberato che percorro con i miei cani ogni giorno. Ora ho paura che ce ne siano di più grandi nelle vicinanze.
It’s a type of lizard without legs called Blindschleiche
emmmmmmaja on
A slow worm (Blindschleiche) attempting to moonlight as an Ouroboros.
It’s a lizard, but due to its lack of legs, most people think it’s a snake.
99thLuftballon on
As the others have said, it’s a slow worm. They’re not venomous.
I think Germany is home to adders, so there is a venomous snake that lives here, but they’re rarely enountered and seeing a slow worm isn’t a sign that anything more dangerous is nearby.
Rhynocoris on
Snakes are technically lizards too, and slow-worms are more closely related to snakes than to all our other non-snake lizards in Germany.
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It’s a type of lizard without legs called Blindschleiche
A slow worm (Blindschleiche) attempting to moonlight as an Ouroboros.
It’s a lizard, but due to its lack of legs, most people think it’s a snake.
As the others have said, it’s a slow worm. They’re not venomous.
I think Germany is home to adders, so there is a venomous snake that lives here, but they’re rarely enountered and seeing a slow worm isn’t a sign that anything more dangerous is nearby.
Snakes are technically lizards too, and slow-worms are more closely related to snakes than to all our other non-snake lizards in Germany.
But this is not a snake, it’s a slow-worm.
It’s a snizard