The valley is also a habitat for numerous amphibians and reptiles : alpine newt, palmate newt, blindworm, grass snake, and common lizard.
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Serbian : sr : ! ; 5 ? 8 [ and Croatian : hr : Sljepi the words for Anguis fragilis or " slow worm " or " blindworm " are I'd say almost certainly built on that root ( cf . one of the English synonyms ) even though it's not clear to me what's blind about those guys.