Skinks in South Africa

Nature Talk
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Good day i live in South Africa and there is no mention of them being here and its not easy finding a organization that deals with this kind of thing here i have searched all over the internet for a place here in South Africa and can not seem to find anything @jon_sullivan @kiwifergus

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You found spotted skinks in South Africa? Can you get a photo and put it up to iNat as an observation, and link to it here? I think you might have seen one of the species from South Africa, not the spotted skink from New Zealand in that link you referred to.

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Here’s all the species of South African skinks recorded on iNaturalist so far. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6986&taxon_id=36982&view=species

If you post your own photo of yours, I expect it will get identified quickly because there are many active users in ZA. Welcome!

Edit: I’ve also moved this to its own thread.

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@carrieseltzer I think @soule was the OP, it’s all to do with the same post.

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Oh no, oops! I should not try to moderate first thing in the morning from my phone! Unfortunately, I can’t seem to move this back to that thread (I get a 500 error). At least this way it’s clear that the geographic area of interest is South Africa.

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@soule in addition to posting your photos, you might want to reach out to user alexanderr, he’s a herpetologist in South Africa and he’s very cool.

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