When I removed a brick that was lying there for a year, I noticed this slimy thing. It was shiny and almost silver-gray. It seemed to have a design on the body. Earthworm is white, but it was, I think different. What could this be? Is it any use to the soil or does it pose any danger?
As I was taking the picture, I noticed it was going into a hole - its own passage I reckon. Sloooop, it went in like a sphagetti going into the kid's mouth, though slowly!
I have NO idea what snaky things live over in India, but that doesn't look like an earthworm to me...earthworms have pretty distinct segments (rings) and snakes have scales and aren't slimy. Actually, my first thought was that your beastie was a caecilian--a type of blind, legless amphibian. Some species are that shade of silver gray. They burrow in the soil and are completely harmless to humans (I think they eat bugs, but would have to check).
pam
Check out the sites below...
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-caecilian.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caecilian
http://www.gymnophiona.org/ (yes an entire site devoted to these critters...amazing what you can find online... :) )
pam
Thanks Pam. Will check out the links tomorrow.
Dinu
