#cercosaura

Cercosaura argulus (Elegant Eyed Lizard) by Kenny Wray Via Flickr: An adult female Elegant-eyed Lizard from Project Amazonas' Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, Peru. I found this female one morning sitting perfectly still among the leaf litter in a small banana plantation bordering the reservoir. She sat perfectly still until I came close to her and then seemingly disappeared (I never saw her move despite taking my eye off her for a split second). After several minutes of kicking around the leaf litter, I saw her again sitting perfectly still about 1.5 m from where I first observed her.