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  • Monthly Image: Mystery Lizard

    We found this critter keeping a watchful eye on the construction at Adams Fairacre Farms during our most recent grocery trip:

    Mystery frilled lizard - detail
    Mystery frilled lizard – detail

    I think it’s an undocumented alien that entered the US stowed away in a tropical plant, because it was affixed to the array of ceramic pots outside their (open) greenhouse windows:

    Mystery frilled lizard
    Mystery frilled lizard

    To the best of my admittedly limited herpetological knowledge, none of our native lizards / geckos / whatever have such a distinctive dorsal frill / fin / ridge. I have no idea how to look the critter up, though.

    We left it to seek its own destiny. Unless it’s a mated female (hard to tell with lizards), it’ll have a lonely life.

    Perhaps it practices rishratha, which is entirely possible.