To the Editor: Two 35 cm long blue-tongue lizards live in the rockery above my home swimming pool (water temperature, 19ºC). While cleaning the pool, I was shocked to see one of them floating motionless on the surface, but with its head held out of the water. Rescue with a net revealed a sluggish but healthy lizard, that slowly crept into the ground cover.
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- Goddard Veterinary Group, London, UK.
Correspondence: williamdarvall@aapt.net.au
- 1. Mader DR, editor. Reptile medicine and surgery. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1996.
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