See the Chameleon?

See the Lizard? (scroll down if you can’t find him)
Edit: Some people say this isn’t a chameleon. So my apologies for claiming it is. I have no idea wtf it is honestly, I’m not a lizard expert.

Just to prove he’s actually there, here’s a picture of the little guy from the side. If you couldn’t see him in the above picture, he is hanging out near the middle of the tree, toward the left hand side.

All chameleon species are able to change their skin color. Changing color is an expression of the physical and physiological condition of the lizard, not as is commonly believed to match their surroundings. The color also plays a part in communication.

Chameleons change their color in response to light exposure and ambient temperature, as well as to express their mood. Emotions and attraction of a mate can induce the color change seen in a chameleon.

Different chameleon species are able to change different colors which can include pink, blue, red, orange, green, black, brown and yellow. Chameleons are naturally coloured for their surroundings as a camouflage. However, recent research has indicated that Chameleons may use colour changes as a method of communication, including to make themselves more attractive to potential mates.

Chameleons have specialized cells, collectively called chromatophores, that lie in layers under their transparent outer skin. The cells in the upper layer, called xanthophores and erythrophores, contain yellow and red pigments respectively. Below these is another layer of cells called iridophores or guanophores, and they contain the colourless crystalline substance guanine. These reflect, among others, the blue part of incident light. If the upper layer of chromatophores appears mainly yellow, the reflected light becomes green (blue plus yellow). A layer of dark melanin containing melanophores is situated even deeper under the reflective iridophores. The melanophores influence the ‘lightness’ of the reflected light. All these pigment cells can rapidly relocate their pigments, thereby influencing the colour of the chameleon.

Chamaeleonidae (Chameleons) are squamates that belong to one of the best-known lizard families. The word is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek (khamaileon), from (khamai) “on the earth, on the ground” + (leon) “lion”, translating to “ground lion”.

More than 160 species of Chameleons are known, arranged in nine genera. The main distribution of Chameleons is in Africa and Madagascar, and other tropical regions, although some species are also found in parts of southern Europe and Asia. There are introduced, feral populations of veiled and Jackson’s chameleons in Hawaii and isolated pockets of feral Jackson’s chameleons have been reported in California and Florida.

Chameleons inhabit all kinds of tropical and montane rain forests, savannas and sometimes semi-deserts and steppes. They are mostly arboreal and are often found in trees or occasionally on smaller bushes. Some smaller species live on the ground under foliage. (Source: Wikipedia)