period of the females is 11 to 14 weeks, after which they usually give birth to eight to twelve young (extreme values: 2 to 28) between mid-July and the end of August, sometimes even later. Slow worms are ovoviviparous; at birth, the 7 to 10cm long young animals are in a very thin, transparent egg shell, which they pierce immediately afterwards. They initially weigh less than a gram and still have a remnant of the yolk.

Ecology

These reptiles do not bask in the sun like other species,

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