Taita Hills Caecilian

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

• 💡 The way offspring grow by eating the outer layer of their mother's skin can be likened to a mother nourishing her baby with her own body, much as human infants nurse on breast milk (Comparison).
• 💡 A congener, the Sagalla Caecilian (Boulengerula niedeni, a different species), has been the focus of conservation education and habitat restoration projects in the Taita Hills region of Kenya.

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.