Biofluorescence in one Namibian Gecko species of the Genus Pachydactylus is reported. In situ analysis of Pachydactylus vanzyli as well as analysis of sympatric microendemists as well as habitat analysis were undertaken to gain further insights into the ecological significance of biofluorescence.

This photo documentation demonstrates the climbing ability of the Dice Snake Natrix tessellata with pictures from the Lower Nahe Valley (Rhineland-Palatinate), from Lake Wörthersee (Carinthia) and from the National Park Danube Floodplains (Lower Austria). It shows Dice Snakes to be good and skilful climbers, which, if the habitat is suitable, often climb on bushes and trees standing in the shore area for basking, resting and sometimes for mating.

Based on the find of a strikingly blue-tailed juvenile of the otherwise cryptically coloured African rain forest lacertid Adolfus africanus, the ecological functions of different tail colours in scincomorph lizards are briefly reviewed and discussed.