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My 2nd cousin brooke (5 yrs old) found a glass snake out in our backyard today, someone has cut the end of its tail off. will it be able to survive? also im about to look around but what do they eat?

thx,
chris
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -Unknown

Glass snakes are lizards, not snakes. If it is, in fact, a Glass Lizard, it's broken tail will heal just like any other lizard that can lose its tail.

Unfortunately, glass lizards do not make very good captives. They will eat crickets, etc, but they don't calm down very much and are difficult to handle.

I would take it out somewhere near where you found it and let it go.
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Chris Harrison

thanks. i had read that glass snakes and lizards will lose their tails...so is it basically a legless lizard?
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -Unknown

This one is from Kansas.

But a lizard, not a snake.

Very LONG tail, short body.

Kerby...

Kerby...

yeah he's definately a glass....snake/lizard/whatever. is it just a species of legless lizard? well her friend is keeping this snake and im trying to talk her parents into letting it go but they seem to want to let her keep it for some unknown reason....i was like hey if u let it go ill give you one of my hatchlings when they're born...(hoping that they would forget about it within the next 2 years lol)
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -Unknown

Just wanted to reiterate...it's not a snake, it's a lizard.
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Martin Whalin
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lol okay okay its a lizard! lol. i got them to let it go...well not really as much convinced them vs taking it out to hold it and walked outside and "accidentally" didn't hold onto it very well, lol.
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The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -Unknown

>>lol okay okay its a lizard! lol. i got them to let it go...well not really as much convinced them vs taking it out to hold it and walked outside and "accidentally" didn't hold onto it very well, lol.
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>>The reason mainstream thought is thought of as a stream is because it's so shallow. -Unknown
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Martin Whalin
My Email

Quotes from guys named Carl:

"Science stops at the frontier of logic. Nature does not, she thrives on ground as yet untrodden by theory."
-Carl Jung

"It is foolish to let singleness of purpose deprive one of the joy and delectation of the many wonderful sights and sounds incidental to the quest."
-Carl Kauffeld