slow-worm

Oh yeah, among the most important predators of slow-worms are other squamates (most notably the Smooth snake Coronella austriaca), and they identify their slow-worm prey by olfaction, not by visual clues.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

The slow-worm, Anguis fragilis L.; a reptile new to the Irish fauna.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

If a slow-worm were to bite, I imagine it would be pretty painful.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Took Jeff to my trusty slow-worm location, but no sightings today.

My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006

Took Jeff to my trusty slow-worm location, but no sightings today.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

Distinguishable from other slow-worms by its high scale count at mid-body (Arnold et al. 1992), cephallonica is now deemed distinct enough from other slow-worms to warrant specific status (as Anguis cephallonica, and not A. cephallonicus* as often stated), so nowadays there are actually two slow-worm species.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Gareth pointed excitedly to a burnished slow-worm pouring itself away into the bracken, and Mordred saw small deer watching them from the ferns at the edge of the forest, as still and dappled as the forest floor where they stood.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

We have also the slow-worm, which is black and greyish of colour, and somewhat shorter than an adder.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

It had been his ambition to make it the home of every bird that built its nest there, of every badger or rabbit or toad or slow-worm that sheltered in its fastnesses.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

The slow-worm crawl'd, the light cameleon climb'd,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 Various