Need animal answers? Ask Shagg, Mouth, or Rosko. This trio of helpful household pets was created by Peter Guren to tackle questions of all kinds. The illustrations are delightful, and younger children will especially enjoy having their questions answered in humorous and educational ways.
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Stephen Gilberg
said, 5 months ago
Good for you admitting to a mistake. Sort of.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago
The anole blends into its surroudings. So does the chameleon. Reptiles don’t have “moods.” They react to stimuli, but they don’t have much in their brain pans that is not geared toward survival.
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What is even more interesting is that other lizard species change color over long periods of time to blend into their surroundings. For example, I caught a Phrynosoma douglasii at Fort Rock. It had black spots with red and yellow in them, matching the lichens on the rocks. When I was a kid, we kept local lizards (sagebrush and western fence) in a series of tanks. At one point we used aquatic gravel. If we used red, the lizards would eventually end up with redder coloring. If we used blue, they would darken in color and get a bluish cast. The only one that didn’t seem to change was a western skink. Another short-horned lizard was very pale from the light colored dirt that he lived in.
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