The opossums often were attracted to the funnel traps by large insects such as camel crickets, grasshoppers and beetles, but also by trapped lizards including the skinks (Eumeces fasciatus and E.
Flat rocks similar to those found disturbed by opossums are the favorite resting places of the skinks, which, in cold or wet weather, are sluggish when beneath such shelters; this is especially true of female skinks that are nesting.
Tis so with hell's eternal shoal Where skinks eat flesh from wenches' bone; 'Tis thus with us purloined by Death, Infernal doom that spells a moan.
Vague dreams plague souls beyond repair, Phantoms, black demons call their queen, Skinks and owls whom no conscience storms Make faces at the leprous moon.
Each vial squat before the spread, Leer at toads in goblets crossed, Froth skinks within each feaster's glass, Wine changed to blood, then acrid green.
Some of the prey animals taken are of types that are more active and swift than the skinks themselves.
As a result there was little activity of other kinds of reptiles that month, but five-lined skinks were active on most days.
In general, skinks transferred from their original location seem soon to settle down in a new range if the habitat is favorable, but establishment of a home range may or may not be preceded by an initial period of wandering.
When circumstances prevented adherence to this schedule in hot summer weather, mortality could be expected in the skinks kept in cloth bags or glass containers, unless water was provided.
In both logs the skinks were accompanied by hibernating anoles (Anolis carolinensis).
In May, with the advent of much warmer weather, daytime temperatures are usually high enough for the skinks to be active.
In captivity five-lined skinks thrived when provided with ample moisture and shelter and food and kept within the proper temperature range.
Movements Data obtained concerning the movements of these skinks demonstrated that individuals tend to limit their activities to small areas thoroughly familiar to them, and wander but little.
On several occasions a number of skinks were put in the terrarium and their temperatures taken at brief intervals.
Most of the skinks recorded at the rock pile were caught by this method, and sometimes several were caught together in the same pitfall.
In the skinks examined that had regenerated tails the proportions varied over a wide range.
Five-lined skinks are absent from most of this upland.
At this season funnel traps set along rock ledges often caught two adult male skinks together.
On several occasions when skinks were put in the freezing compartment of a refrigerator and frozen solid, at temperatures several degrees below freezing, they failed to revive when warmed.
It does not seem a very nice idea, yet even to this day skinks are used for the same purpose in Eastern countries.
In olden days skinks were very much used in medicine, and the powder obtained from their dried bodies was thought to be a certain cure for many diseases!
On Arno Atoll geckos and night-feeding skinks eat large numbers of cockroaches (Usinger and La Rivers, 1953).
Growth of five-lined skinks (Eumeces fasciatus) on the Natural History Reservation paralleled growth of box turtles, probably because at least some of the same environmental factors influence the growth of both species.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skinks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
