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Suzy View Drop Down
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    Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 11:23am
Is it possible to see the scale imprints on a slow worm skin? I took this photo yesterday and saw a part of a shed skin - near red arrow. Maybe the slow worm tail nearby is the one that has just shed. Also notice the squashed slow worm top left of the image, which is alive. I wonder how that happened. 



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That looks like the slow-worm's not quite finished shedding, with the skin just about to slip off the end of its tail.

The sloughs quite often roll up- you can sometimes find little rings of shed skin. 
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I wondered if it was that. Thanks Caleb. I somehow didn't expect the scale imprint with slow worms seeming so smooth.
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hope the injured one will be ok suz and the injury is more superficial than it looks Unhappy
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