Socotra Skink (Trachylepis socotrana)

As I was busy photographing the flowers of this Cucumis prophetarum, this skink entered the scene and started consuming one flower after another!
Not easy being a juicy flower on Socotra! If a skink doesn’t eat it, a caterpillar might, or a goat!






Endemic.
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