Amazon Race Runner

Ameiva Ameiva (Amazon Race Runner)
Upload feito originalmente por Alessandra Pak

Name: Amazon Race Runner
Scientific name: Ameiva Ameiva

Info: Is widespread in northern South America, grows to around 45–50 cm. Both sexes are brown with irregular black spots but the male has a bright green area in the centre of his back. It's oviparous, laying up to six eggs. Only the males have this bluish color.


my note: I really like the ameiva ameivas, they're always on my backyard rummaging through the dry leaves searching for insects. It's easy to find them, cuz they make a lot of noise when they walk on the leaves and they use to walk in couples. If you want to take a picture of them, you've to pass sunscreen (you'll have to stay a long while on the sun, believe me) and get close very carefully, because when they realize that you're next of them, they run as fast than they can to another place. But don't worry, they don't go so far, all you've to do is get close again!