File talk:Female Skink with Eggs.JPG

Sure this is a picture of a mother skink moving her eggs? The eggs look pretty large to be for that animal. Could it be that these are actually the eggs of some other animal, and the skink is trying to pick one to eat?

I had the same thought. There are at least six eggs, and each has a larger cross-section than her body. On another topic, this seems like a very unlikely place for a skink to lay her eggs; wouldn't she go for a more covert location? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 01:36, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm much less certain than I was. Lakehead University has a page on skink conservation which includes an image of three skinks brooding eggs at http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~shecnar/?display=page&pageid=7 . As here, those eggs look pretty darn large for those skinks to lay, but in context it's pretty clear that's what happened -- Dan Griscom (talk) 18:12, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]