{"id":16816,"date":"2016-09-04T05:26:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2016-09-04T05:27:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T05:27:33","slug":"a-slow-worm-on-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=16816","title":{"rendered":"A slow worm on the path"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we saw another slow worm on the path. I think it was the biggest one I have ever seen.<\/p>\n

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The slow worm with my husband’s foot to show it’s length<\/p><\/div>\n

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I think this is the biggest one that I have ever seen<\/p><\/div>\n

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I placed a ruler next to it to try to show it’s length<\/p><\/div>\n

\"It's<\/a>

It’s just over a foot long<\/p><\/div>\n

They grow up to fifty centimetres (one foot eight inches) and this one was thirty seven centimetres (one foot three inches) so it wasn’t far off the longest.<\/p>\n

They are actually legless lizards. They have closeable eyelids. They can drop their tails to escape predators and they eat slugs, worms, snails and the odd insect or spider.<\/p>\n

They don’t bite and are harmless. They hibernate from October to March.<\/p>\n

We feel lucky to have them breeding in our garden. We have seen babies, medium sized ones and now this large one. It was very accommodating to wait for me to get a ruler and take photos. We do like to see them in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we saw another slow worm on the path. I think it was the biggest one I have ever seen. They grow up to fifty centimetres (one foot eight inches) and this one was thirty seven centimetres … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}