{"id":9909,"date":"2020-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/rainbow-skink\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:44","slug":"rainbow-skink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/rainbow-skink\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Skink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Rainbow Skink [Trachylepis margaritifera]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Rainbow Skink is a large skink that is primarily black in colour with yellow-brown stripes traveling from its head to the base of its tail. Its tail is a deep blue colour with some traces of black mixed in. Its face often has a reddish colouration that blends into the stripes. Its legs are black with yellow-brown spots dotting the surface.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Rainbow Skink feeds primarily on small insects like crickets, grasshoppers ants and beetles.<\/p>\n<h2>Distribution<\/h2>\n<p>The Rainbow Skink is quite a common lizard that covers a wide range from KwaZulu-Natal to Zimbabwe and the Lowveld to Senegal and Algeria. They prefer rocky terrain with lots of crevices and cracks to flee to.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>The female will lay anywhere from 6 \u2013 10 eggs in the summer months. The young hatch after an incubation period of 62 days. It is possible for a female to lay two clutches of eggs per season, specifically in the northern regions of South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Rainbow Skink [Trachylepis margaritifera] Appearance The Rainbow Skink is a large skink that is primarily black in colour with yellow-brown stripes traveling from its head to the base of its tail. Its tail is a deep blue colour with some traces of black mixed in. Its face often has a reddish colouration that blends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}