Tag: Lizards

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Chameleon in my tree!

Yep, the wildlife in Sri Lanka provides no end of amusement for me. It's true. 😀 Here's…

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Chameleons in my yard!

I do love the chameleons in my yard in Sri Lanka. Living in Singapore, I don't have…

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A monitor lizard crossing the road in Sri Lanka

This happens often enough in Sri Lanka – wildlife crossing the road. It might be a goat…

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Chameleons!

At our house in Sri Lanka, we'd see chameleons in our yard every now and then. Sometimes…

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Can’t live with ’em, can’t kill ’em all…

Because they run fast and they breed too quickly. From wildlife Geckos are a real nuisance. I…

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Chameleon in heat!

I read somewhere, sometime, a very very long time ago, that when a chameleon turns deep red…

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Hot Off the Presses! Photos of Chameleon Sex!

I spot one of my garden chameleons on the jambu tree, where he normally perches. … Honestly, my first thought was “hmm, he’s getting lunch”, even though I didn’t think lizards ate other lizards. … Then, a second or two later – cuz, yes, they really were that fast – separated, although that took a couple of seconds, too.

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A Squirrel and a Chameleon Meet…

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. … Cuz I really don’t think we’re in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.

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Favourite Photos of 2007

This is one of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs, aka purple-faced leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus vetulus). He’s sitting on…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

Favourite Photos of 2005

2005 was an all-round difficult year. The Asian tsunami happened only 5 days before 2005 started, and…

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Project #365 Day 119 The Eye of the Chameleon

This chameleon was perched on one of my plants while I did my morning walk. He stayed…

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Chameleon! Maybe?

Chameleon live in the wild here. They visit us in Colombo, but here, this one is hanging…

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Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions

I don’t know if this is the same lizard who visits our garden, or if there’s a…

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Lizard Crossing

It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing…

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Project #365 Day 57 Chameleon Re-Visited

He (she? I can’t get close enough to lift his/her/its tail) seems to be a fairly frequent…

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Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim

I was downstairs, getting ready to mix up some bread dough and make some sweets, when I…

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Day 34/#365 Help! Let me out!

Geckos are just a part of life here in Sri Lanka. I mostly don’t scream when I…

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A lizard came for a visit…

This guy is about 15" or so long, including the tail, so not terribly big. I saw…

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A chameleon on our doorstep!

A few days ago, Fahim called to me from downstairs, telling me to hurry and bring my…

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The latest lizard to invade my garden

This guy was smallish. I say small-ish because, at about 2 1/2 feet long, this lizard isn’t…

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The Lizard Walk. And The Bird. But Mostly The Lizard Walk.

It started at 3:04:35 pm and continued until 3:08:52 pm and will be indelibly imprinted on our…

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Borax and Sugar and Ants, Oh My!

Borax and sugar kills the ants so incredibly well, it’s delightful! Except that the big brown ants…

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Lunch?

It tried climbing up our living room window. Course, it didn’t work well, being glass and all….

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Barbecue!!!!!

So*. One suggestion that came from a forum where I’d posted about this was to catch the…

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Lizard!

We’ve now figured out what all the commotion was earlier. See, what first alerted us to the…