On this week’s Wild Wednesday, Great Plains Zoo Educational Director, Leigh Spencer, joined Dakota News Now to talk about the prehensile-tailed skink.

Its movements through the tree canopy seemed effortless, partly due to its tail. A tail that functions in this way is called prehensile. In this sense, prehensile means, “capable of grasping.” ...

This is the tail of a veiled chameleon; it’s a prehensile tail, meaning it’s able to grasp and hold onto objects. In the wild, these lizards live most of their lives in the trees and use their tails ...