I took your advice and added some full-body pictures. Don't let the one fool you; the inside of her mouth is pink but the tongue itself is long and black. I kept taking pictures but she kept flicking it back in faster than my camera could click. Also, I was surprised today to discover that her tail is slightly prehensile. She doesn't use it as much as a monkey-tail would, and she certainly doesn't have that tortoise-face that monkeytails have, but there was one second when she was climbing down from my hand to my elbow and must have lost her grip a litle. She immediately grabbed my wrist with her tail and gripped it for a second, then went back to using it like any normal lizard would. So I'm thinking maybe I should add more branches. I've seen Eugongylus rufescens, which is one of the possibilities, described as both arboreal and fossorial, so I imagine it's a bit of both, but even that doesn't say much. There are lot of types of behavior that those descriptions can apply to, you know?
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0.1 Coastal Carpet (Boots)
0.1 Western Hognose (Bebe)
0.1 Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 Solomon Islands Ground Skink (Minerva)

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