Sunday, May 3, 2015

Dew-in' the Dewlap

Photo by Marty Horowitz 4/27/2015

This very colorful Greater Earless lizard is really struttin' his stuff. The flap of chin skin is called a dewlap. Both males and females of this species do push-ups like this; but this one is definitely a male. The blue coloring around the stripes is the sign.


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