Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Co-evolution in action


The Daily Mail has reported a "soaring demand" for the Mwanza Flat Headed Agama lizard due to the African native's obvious resemblance to a certain comic book hero: Spiderman. Apparently calls for the little creatures started flooding in after photographer Roy Daines captured the "simply Marvel-ous" image (above) of this little lizard crawling around a hotel lodge pool in Kenya. Daines told the Daily Mail:

"His colourings were very bright making him look like he was dressed in a suit - crawling around on the rock made him look exactly like Spider-Man."

Read more here

4 comments:

Becky said...

Troy would like one of these...too bad that would be vetoed :)

Deborah said...

LOL well lucky for you they are pretty hard to get a hold of (TWSS)

Sam Sessa said...

... does whatever a spider lizard does ...

Deborah said...

lollers ;-)