Snake Lizards!

WHQR | By Andy Wood

Published July 28, 2008 at 3:55 PM EDT

"It was a snake-like, nearly two foot long lizard, known variously as a legless, or glass lizard; legless because this reptile has no legs and the moniker glass refers to this lizard's ability to break away its long fragile tail in order to escape a clutching predator such as a hawk or fox."

By Andy Wood

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Wilmington, NC – Commentator Andy Wood was working at home when his concentration was broken by a pleasant surprise.

Andy Wood is education curator for Audubon North Carolina

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Andy Wood

Andy Wood, a WHQR commentator since February 1987, is an ecologist and conservation educator with an affinity for ecosystem habitats in and around southeastern North Carolina, and the plants, wildlife, and people they support. A collection of Andy’s commentaries is collected into his first book, Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary.

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