Amazonian Green Anole Fails to See the Cryptic Cricket

punctatusThe caption says: At first look this image may just look like an Amazon green anole (Anolis punctatus) climbing a tree; but look a little closer… there is a cryptically coloured cricket fooling the predatory eyes of the lizard. Jack Mortimer Photography

Jonathan Losos

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2 Comments

  1. Looks to me like another, very small, brown anole, head down, right under the big guy’s jaw…. Tail, banded, under his chin, going straight up the tree…. I see both eyes, snout-tip…. Of course I am just talkin’ — there is no MCZ tag tied to it so it does not exist, as EEW would have pointed out…. Skip

  2. What: no Comment! Does NObody see the little anole? Does ANYbody see the cricket?

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