The Canopy Lizard or Berthold's Bush Anole, Polychrus gutturosus, is an arboreal lizard found throughout Central America from Honduras down to Ecuador


The Canopy Lizard or Berthold's Bush Anole, Polychrus gutturosus, is an arboreal lizard found throughout Central America from Honduras down to Ecuador in South America. It has a long, prehensile tail that it can use to lower itself from branch to branch in the rainforest canopy where it lives. Photographed in Costa Rica.


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