The gentle animals look spooky

Many creatures rare in wild nature in the eyes of humans look ugly and frightening, but in reality they are very healthy.

The tail-shaped gecko is three-pecked, Ptychozoon trinotaterra . Many people will feel goosebumps when they see this gecko clinging to the woody tree trunk in the forest. Their bodies have many large nodules on their backs. Their bodies are thinner and more patterned on the body forming strips of black, brown, white and round mold. The skin of the abdomen and cheek skin of this species is quite wide on both sides as they jump from tree to tree while avoiding predators, hunting. This is a rare species in the wild. (Photo: Khuong Huu Thang)

Ptychozoon lionatum lobster tail . This is a relative of the three-lobed tail gecko, but smaller in size and slightly tapered to the rear. Their tails are serrated on both sides and are deeply cut with 9-15 saw teeth. They often work at night and live together with other geckos. When chased, they often jump down and use leather wings to fly over other trees, or at least avoid falling. The food of this species is small insects. (Photo: Le Khac Quyet)

Other snake lizards Ophisaurus harti . The body of this species is adorned with light reddish brown with blue horizontal lines on its back. The upper pups are dull brown with small black dots, they also have a dark brown band running from the muzzle, along the hips above the groove, to the tail and a narrower second strip below the groove. . Shiny rectangular scales form continuous, long running life and are arranged in straight horizontal rows.

This species is distributed in areas with colder climates, so they live mainly in the North and where elevation of 1,400m or more. Their food is mainly insects. The newly hatched lizard is about 1.8cm long. (Photo: Nguyen Thien Tao)

Sooty snake lizard Ophisaurus sokolovi . This species is smaller in size than the other snake lizard lady Ophisaurus harti. The body of the species is adorned with a light brown color and the fairly uniform vertical scales hang along the body. They have a very clear black trail running from the middle of their hips to the tail. Although they are not legless, they are actually a champion of crawling and hiding as fast as electricity creeps into the vegetation traps whenever they feel threatened. When arrested they pretended to die by closing their eyes and limp body. The habitat of the species is mainly in the lower tree layers where the vegetation litter is thick, humid and rarely seen except when they are sunny in the cool morning or after the rain. (Photo: Hoang Minh Duc)

Lizard ball short legs Lygosoma quadrupes . Around this species there are many names like "snake with legs." For the scientific world, they are just a harmless lizard and their limbs may be a mistake of creation because their limbs are very weak enough to lift the long and heavy body, causing them to crawl faster than the surface of the forest's litter.

The skin of this species is surrounded by a sturdy, shiny horned armor with thousands of tiny scales. Their tail is 7cm long. This very long lizard species represents the caves' lifestyles of Lygosoma-like lizards. The limbs shrink a lot but still have five fingers. There is only one cling and no upper part, perhaps because they connect to the scales on the nose. This species is often found in log sections. Food is termite and larvae. (Photo: arowana.com.vn)

Angel shadow lizard Lygosoma angeli. The rows of evenly arranged scales of this species are shimmering in the sun after long rains that cause them to regulate their body temperature by sun exposure. Their staring eyes were very wary of the surrounding threats and just a small noise was enough for them to run four feet into the thickest bushes.

Compared to the people with short-chain lizard Lygosoma quadrupes, the size of this species is 2 to 2.5 times greater but the length of the tail is shorter. They have 30 rows of scales around the middle of the body, and scales on the back are no bigger than other scales. (Photo: vncreatures.net)