Basiliscus vittatus (male)
NAME: Basiliscus vittatus
COMMON NAME: Brown Basilisk (male)
IUCN REDLIST: n/a
LOCATION: Wild, in natural environment. Cayo Menor, Cayos Cochinos Islands, Honduras.
WHEN: July 6, 2009.
CAMERA: Canon EOS 400D SLR
LENS: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro
APERTURE: f/5.6
SPEED: 1/60
FLASH: yes, internal
Photographed while on an animal conservation and biodiversity monitoring trip, with Operation Wallacea, in Honduras. This guy was the perfect poser! And nobody spotted him just sitting there, watching us all wash our hands on the beach before climbing all the steps up to the eating area. I spotted him at the last minute and proceeded to take this photograph of him, while he just sat there, letting me get rather close to him! No other reptile let me get as close as this guy did - not even the iguanas which were everywhere and were used to human contact but liek a sensible distance kept between them and us. This basilisk lizard on the other hand, not as acclimated to humans as the iguana (this was the only one we saw) but let me extremely close to him! (part of the reason for this with the animals here isn't exactly due to being acclimated to humans as such, but more so due to the presence of very few natural predators on the island) AWESOME! Need more animals to be like that towards me :D
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Basiliscus
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Basiliscus vittatus, Brown Basilisk, Cayos Cochinos Islands, natural environment, Canon EOS 400D, conservation and biodiversity, Honduras, IUCN
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