Bummer!!!!

[mick11]

I have been keeping reptiles for over 30 years. My mom gave my 1st snake at age 5.

I'm always on teh look out for reptiles while going camping with my family. I was towing our boat to the boat ramp when we noticed what looked like an injured snake on the shoulder of the road. I stopped the truck and my wife and daughters (in the boat) saw the snake too. My wife said it was striped, so we both thought Garter snake. I took a look and I saw a reptile that I have been looking for as long as I can remember. It was a Western Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus Attenuatus Attenuatus ) that was run over by a car.

The road was clear of any debris, so it it seemed that this was an intentional run over.

I put the guy back in the woods next to a small stream. I don't think his chnaces were good.

It upset my 6 year old daughter enough that she wanted to report it to a park ranger. It was her closure to say she did her part.

So I finally found one, but not the way I had hoped. It was a very cool looking animal. Hope to find another some day.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Sorry...

 

[Vicious_Fish]

That is a shame. But you have to consider that most of a glass lizards length is tail so hopefully it has a chance to survive if none of it's major organs were injured.

 

[coura]

That is a shame. But you have to consider that most of a glass lizards length is tail so hopefully it has a chance to survive if none of it's major organs were injured.

I dont think the poor critter chances are greatRemenbar that if only the tail was injured the lizard would have made a run for it. It seems to me that the only think keeping him alive was the fact that he was a herp. Herps can be literaly "dead animals walking" Thouse Asian folks that like to eat snake flesh many times rip the snake´s heart wille the animal is still alive and both parts still refuse to die for a wille