Hilton Head Island is a nature-lover's paradise, offering up everything from ospreys to eagles, dolphins to turtles, and alligators to manatees. One of the island's smallest residents is the Blue-Tailed Skink, shown below. Blue is not one of nature's common colors, and it might serve to warn predators that they may be poisonous, or conversely, to attract predators to their tail, which is expendable. If the skink loses its tail in a confrontation, it has the remarkable ability to regenerate it, although the new tail will be a more subdued gray color.
A ton of information on Hilton Head's wildlife can be found at the link below.
https://www.islandlifehh.com/wildlife
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