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dantro
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: Metro Article ... Lizard found in bananas ... Really? |
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Saw this article in the London Metro this morning, seems a bit suspect to me ... And i wish they wouldnt keep calling it a lizard!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=187723&in_page_id=34#StartComments
wouldnt be surprised if they went to the garden found the "lizard" put it on the banana, took a pic .. and there u go ... News!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: Lizard ...NOT |
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Not a great image but I'd say it was a young Smooth Newt and very much from this country!!!
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Thats was i was thinking .. down the garden grab a newt .. according t the article the R.S.P.C.A. didnt even notice what it was .???! .. 
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| Quote: | | 'I rang Tesco headquarters and they said they would destroy him for me but I couldn't have him killed. |
 That was good of them...idiots!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yep - its a juvenile smooth newt.
Compare with the pic (of a juvenile smooth) below.
Just think - tomorrow this guy could be giving evidence in a court case as an expert witness. Doesn't bear thinking about.
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aw its so sweet.
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yeah who said that lol. The truth they speak of though.
It's NOT a lizard...it's NOT even a reptile!
Come on guys, how difficult is it to tell an amphibian from a reptile!
Oh...hold on a minute...The RSPCA were involved.....lol...no wonder they didn't have a clue what it was...lol...wasn't so long ago they drowned a tortoise because they thought it was an aquatic terrapin.
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