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Jesus christ Lizard

Basiliscus basisilicus

Description:

This is a lizard, has the ability to walk in water, to scape from predators

Habitat:

This was at the Tempisque River in Guanacaste, Costa Rica .

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16 Comments

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 10 years ago

Thanks for the comment, cranbrook-sda-youth1

cranbrook-sda-youth1
cranbrook-sda-youth1 10 years ago

Amazing!

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

I was lucky....

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 12 years ago

Excellent capture. That's not easy to time!

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

Very cool bayucca

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

Cool!!

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

Thats right.... haha

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 12 years ago

Gracias

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

De hecho tenemos 3 especies, vi que planea estudiar biología; a su tiempo las conocerá. Suerte y gracias por sus comentarios.

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 12 years ago

Wow que increible yo hasta ahora me doy cuenta que viven aqui yo cuando los veia en reportajes pensaba que solo vivian en lugares de africa y australia

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

J.C Lizard walking on water.....

Carolina
Carolina 12 years ago

Oh that's really interesting, gracias Jonathan.

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

WE have 3 diferent species in CR, this is just one of them, the other is a full size, Basiliscus plumifrons.

Carolina
Carolina 12 years ago

Is this a baby Jonathan? I just saw you have another Jesus C lizard, that looks like a dragon, a green one.

Carolina
Carolina 12 years ago

Me too Peter! I got it after seeing this spotting days ago, I even told my friends about it haha. Thank you for sharing Jonathan!

peter
peter 12 years ago

I can see where he gets his name!

Jonathan Sequeira
Spotted by
Jonathan Sequeira

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Spotted on Apr 17, 2011
Submitted on Apr 17, 2011

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