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A close-up shot of a very photogenic Maltese Wall Lizard basking in the sunRelated content
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It's so friggin awesomesaucesome! I love the fact that this is one of the only lizard photos in which you can see the hands clearly. I'm sooo using this as a guide for my dragon gloves right now xD. Even the colours are the best, the pattern is wonderful too.
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thanks, they really are beautiful creatures
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indeed they are
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wow what a beauty. i hope you dont mind if i use this ic as my desk top as i love lizards
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it's ok you can, i don't mind
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Very nice! What a pretty coloring and pattern he has.
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thanks 
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The colour! Just gorgeous...! I am more used to the blue and grey ones, never know that there is this jewellery like green to be found at the maltese ones!
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true, they're reallt beautiful 
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The color is amazing! I love the sharpness and clarity of the picture.
What a fascinating little lizard, goes to show how much biodiversity is on Malta
We only have a few skink lizard species here in eastern Virginia
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really? but you must have other, larger animals too? In malta we have a different subspecies of this lizard living on almost all the minor islands, which are just tiny rocks jutting out of the sea
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Oh no we have a lot of wildlife! I meant as far as lizards go xD
Bears, deer, fox, porcupine, mink, bobcat, coyote, you name it.
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Lucky!!!
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I wish! Only in zoos, they used to be included in our region tho along with other prehistoric fauna around the iceage 10,000 years ago
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still it's better than what we've got. Our largest mammals are rabbits, not counting the stray cats 
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Wow I would think you would have deer or something? That sucks
Ha our bobcats would eat your stray cats 
We have a lot of marine mammals here too, Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, dusky dolphin, humback whales and pilot whales farther offshore, and occasional grey whales I do believe
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lol ^^ we used to have deer, but not anymore 
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Aw sorry to hear about the turtles! It seems
Malta used to have a great biodiversity before
people came along, with the aves poaching and all.
DEAR CHRIST THAT IS A BIG SHARK 
are rare around Va, only in the colder months do
they show up. We do have a lot of dusky, blue
shark, nurse shark, sand shark, and some others
I can't think of atm.
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lol ^^ well unfortunately i've never seen any of the apex predators, only a few small coastal sharks, like dogfish. But we also have quite a few octopus, squid and cuttlefish, and they're quite easy to find when snorkelling, but most people catch them for food, they're a delicacy here in malta
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I love cuddlefish!
Wait, which sculptures would those be?
Are those the big standing ones? I forget what they are called.
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Well we have pretty huge sculptures of fat women (the goddess of fertility) [link] and gigantic freestanding rocks that make up the outer walls of the temples [link] [link]
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Those are magnificent
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they sure are
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yep, he sure is ^^
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Thank you very much
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Gozo
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I had a hunch it was a Gozitan specimen
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how can you tell the difference?
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well, generally, there are more striped lizards on Gozo than in Malta, and the underpart of the head of Malta lizards is generally more reddish than those of Gozo. in Gozo you can also find quite common in the wild, while in Malta mainly in urban areas.
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intersting, i didn't know about the stripes and neck colours, thanks
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you're welcome
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Thanks loads
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