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Blue tongue eating clay??
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:35 pm
by Rhi
soooo.. I just had my blue tongues out for a 'play' in an enclosed garden bed, which is mostly dirt with lumps of clay and a few plants. One of my BTSs 'Lulu' raced around and then got stuck into chunks of clay?? biting them hungrily, and got a big mouthful, which I assume disintegrated in her mouth as she didn't seem to have trouble swallowing it. Is this normal behaviour?? Good or harmful?
Re: Blue tongue eating clay??
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:47 am
by Dood
It is possible there was dried slug or snail slime on the clay which caused the feeding frenzy - my skink mouths anything with this scent on it but has experience with eating snails and spits out rocks, twigs, leaves etc... that aren't real snails
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Re: Blue tongue eating clay??
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:11 pm
by Scotts1au
Some animals like piglets deliberately injest soil as a means of extracting iron and other elements. Blueys in the wild inadvertently eat sticks, soil, stones with their meals. Possible that the bluey feels that it needs something.