I had to forgo handling the animal due to the fact I had a bredli in my hands at the time. That particular animal has been in captivity for 11 years.
The hand belongs to Tim Milne, one of the original researchers into the pigmy bluey.
For those who don't know about the animal.
The Pigmy or Adelaide blue tongue was not seen for 30 years and was almost marked extinct. In 1992 two herpers stopped and dissected a road kill brown. Surprisingly they recognized the stomach contents as a PBT.
This led to a lot of people searching for the PBT but they couldn't find any. But stomach contents of brown snakes revealed more and kestrels were reported to be seen with them. But still no one could find the animal. Then they tried pit traps and found they could catch the animals , but still couldn?t find where the animals lived (which is embarrassing, in good areas the density is 1000 per heterce, that's one per square meter :shock: ). Anyhow the mystery was finally solved by fitting an animal with a transponder, they live in spider holes, normally evicting the spider via the tail end of the lizard