{"id":326,"date":"2009-05-15T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=326"},"modified":"2010-05-20T01:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:15:49","slug":"lacerta-viridis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2009\/05\/15\/lacerta-viridis\/","title":{"rendered":"European Green Lizard (Lacerta Viridis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our short trip<\/a>, last week-end, I took a shot of a very nice green-blue lizard.<\/p>\n

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Later, me and Ani<\/a> discovered that actually this lizard is called European green lizard<\/a>, and is also known as Lacerta viridis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Its name contains only ‘green’, but I would have called it green-blue, as its back is really green, but its stomach has a very intensive blue color<\/a><\/strong> (as you can see from the photo, too).<\/p>\n

So I decided to publish a few more shots of it:<\/p>\n

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It had a very interesting head, and how bravely it looked towards the lens:<\/p>\n

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So beautiful! It wasn’t scared even a bit by the camera and the flash (which I dared to fire off once, trying to un-shadow some parts of its body:-)<\/p>\n

Now, if you look at it a certain angle, and can imagine it bigger, a lot bigger…<\/p>\n

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…you’ll see a crocodile! :-)<\/p>\n

I think I have met such a lizard for the first time. Maybe they are a rarer kind?<\/p>\n

Here’s a ‘normal’ lizard, just for comparison:<\/p>\n

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We took a photo of it on the same walk on Sunday. In fact, both kinds of lizards were lying in the sun in the most peaceful of manners, less than 2 metres away from each other! :-)<\/p>\n

Photos were taken with a Canon S5 IS<\/a>, from around 1-1.5 m<\/em> of distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our short trip, last week-end, I took a shot of a very nice green-blue lizard. Later, me and Ani discovered that actually this lizard is called European green lizard, and is also known as Lacerta viridis. Its name contains only ‘green’, but I would have called it green-blue, as its back is really green,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}