What is this?

[Ebonbuddha]

My wife and I went ot Thailand for two weeks and stay eight days on Koh Chang. This island is protected by the Thai government, so there are alot of wild life running around. This guy was on our porch. What is it Bill?

 

[Roger Bunting]

It\'s a skink of some sort but I\'m not sure which one yet.

 

[darklord]

olive tree skin k maybe?

 

[Roger Bunting]

Maybe one of these?

http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/lizards/speckled_forest_skink.htm

 

[Bill]

It\'s definitely a skink! Possibly a Tropidophorus species. But there are quite a lot of skinks that look like that to be honest, so I\'m not sure lol

 

[darklord]

lets just call him bob

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Ok. I was curious. Ther were alot of guy like this running around the island. I saw some stuff when I was hiking. The outdoor restraunt at the bungalows had geckos that came out atnight too.

 

[SJB]

If it\'s a Skink, watch out. There maybe a Kroxigor hiding nearby...

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Originally posted by darklord
lets just call him bob

Sorry mate, to make things easy, we\'ll call \'im Bruce.

 

[Bigdennis52]

Oh God its a SKINK!!!! OMG (books trip to thialand to paint lizardmen army lol)

I have several photo\'s saved to my comp of various lizards / skinks / gecko\'s and I have a couple it could be but I never saved their names to the photo\'s

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Ahhhh...That was the thrashing noise I heard when I went down that trail.

Originally posted by SJB
If it\'s a Skink, watch out. There maybe a Kroxigor hiding nearby...