My conversations: A green garden lizard, sensing threat, changes its colours in the hills of Kadugannawa, near Colombo, Sri Lanka. The lizard is common in gardens and in the wild across the country and largely remains unharmed by humans. Photograph: M.A. Pushpa Kumara/EPA

Sunday, May 25, 2014

A green garden lizard, sensing threat, changes its colours in the hills of Kadugannawa, near Colombo, Sri Lanka. The lizard is common in gardens and in the wild across the country and largely remains unharmed by humans. Photograph: M.A. Pushpa Kumara/EPA

A Green Garden Lizard or Pala Katussa in Sinhalese changing its colour when threatened in the hills of Kadugannawa 99 kilometres from Colombo, Sri lanka, 22 May 2014. Common among home gardens as well in shrub jungles island-wide its green acts as camouflage among the foliage. When threatened or agitated it changes colour around its upper body. It is mostly left unharmed by humans.