Backyard Buddies

• Baby blue-tongues do not hatch from eggs but are born fully formed.
• They can live for more than 20 years and reach over 50cm in length.
• While young, they are vulnerable to currawongs and kookaburras.
• Their greatest threat is from uncontrolled dogs and cats.
• They are slow moving and largely defenceless.
• Female blue-tongues stay within a defined home base.
• Males wander over about 15 house blocks and have several females.
• Mating sometimes looks like a fight, and injuries do happen.
• They are not venomous, but may try to bite hard if handled.