Blue Tongued Skink

Inside the Reptile House, the first creature was a Blue Tongued Skink. The face looks rather snake-like, but, no, there's legs, and apparently a blue tongue can come flicking out of the mouth.

Monkey2 loves animals. LOVES animals. She had her nose against the glass and was giggling even though the skink was merely watching her. However, then she put her little hand against the glass, and the skink put his little hand-like paw up against the inside of the glass too. Monkey2 looked for a long time, talking the whole time, to me, to herself, to the skink. Then she started to slide herself over towards the next creature (the tanks are set in the wall at the Zoo), and the skink followed, scrabbling at the wall when Monkey2 went out of sight. I called her attention to this, and she quickly returned to the skink.

I wonder... she was wearing a fleece jacket that was about the same blue as some photos showed the color of the skink's blue tongue...