The Anolis Carolinensis - southeastern green anolis #reptiles #lizard

The Wild Report on Instagram: "🦎 This beautiful lizard is the green anole (Anolis carolinensis), a common reptile with some tricks up its- er - scales. One of these tricks is its incredible ability to change the color of its scales based on temperature or mood! While chameleons are most famous for their ability to color shift, many animals actually possess this adaptation, many of them fellow reptiles. This transformation is made possible thanks to chromatophores, pigment-bearing cells in the s