Slow warm a friend to gardeners ; Funny English name, ring ouzel, writes an Exmoor reader. "Why not crescent or white-breasted ouzel?" Well, for silly names, and one that has survived the years, I suggest slow worm is as odd as any. Blind worm and deaf adder are other old country names going back to days when this legless lizard was thought of as a snake.

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Funny English name, ring ouzel, writes an Exmoor reader. "Why not crescent or white-breasted ouzel?" Well, for silly names, and one that has survived the years, I suggest slow worm is as odd as any. Blind worm and deaf adder are other old country names going back to days when this legless lizard was thought of as a snake.

The slow worm certainly isn't slow, nor is it blind, and there are vestiges of limbs hidden beneath that lovely silvery or bronze scaly covering that always looks recently polished and groomed. The tongue is notched but not forked, the eyes are lidded as in other lizards and ...

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