Thursday Green Anole

I'm posting these images of a Green Anole for #ThursdayGreen, the fourth day and color in the #ColorChallenge day of the week rainbow photography challenge masterminded by @kalemandra. This colorful lizard, a native of the southeastern United States, was out of place in Southern California and even more out of place where I took these pictures...the Africa Rocks area of the San Diego Zoo. We eventually went to the reptile house at the zoo, and they don't have an Anole exhibit, so it's unlikely he escaped. How he got to the San Diego Zoo is definitely a mystery. To be honest though, he was one of the most exciting things we saw at the zoo. Don't get me wrong, the San Diego Zoo is a world class zoo. It's just that my granddaughter is a budding herpetologist and was extremely excited to see this guy on the loose. She gave everyone a run down on Anoles. It really made her day, which was nice because it was her birthday :-)

_{Original photographs by @kunschj. All rights reserved}