PHOTO OF THE DAY: Lizard shares food with bird


Love your lizards.

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15 Comments

  1. ebonyxo1
    September 18, 2010

    oh pls stop criticizing. i grew up in the country side n i once experienced my dad’s cat n a rat eating together fr d same plate on the kitchen table. they cld not be bothered even when i walked into the kitchen. yes normally the cat is supposed to seek out d rat but in that case it did not happen. n d rat was definitely not tamed. its just a pity i did not have a cam in my hand at the moment. it is possible to capture very rare moments in life. its a beautiful pic wld u pple just let it be. good job on whoever the photographer might be

  2. Patti
    September 18, 2010

    @Lizavier4Jesus:
    your comment is funny. This is a real lizard and real bird. They come every late afternoon to eat. Feed the birds everyday and a few weeks ago this lizard decided to join in.. It is what it is. lol

  3. September 18, 2010

    This picture is not real. Both the bird and the lizard look strange. The bird looks like it has one hind leg and the the front legs look too much shorter than the hind leg or legs. I have never seen a lizard with a tail that is part thick with a such an immediate thin end. The thinner end comes gradually but proportionately.

    I have lived away from Dominica for a very long time, but I grew up there in the village. I am sure that I know what a real bird and a real lizard look like. The things in that picture does not like neither bird nor lizard.

    Also, it is not possible to have a bird eating, before another object, with so much relaxation unless it was a tame bird. But those birds are in cages. That is why people put up zombies to scare them away from their tomato gardens for example. If the bird was there first the lizard would scare it away. If the lizard was there first, the bird would not stop right before it to eat like that.

    And for sure, one of those two would have to arrive at that food scene before the other, and that arrival would cause an interruption. How long would the photographer have to wait to witness this posture and to snap it?

  4. ras
    September 17, 2010

    dat bird doe easy

  5. wild wild west
    September 17, 2010

    i am tired of lizards make photo’s of the week shate man.

  6. Spectacular
    September 17, 2010

    Without a doubt this should be the picture of the month…surely a nikon moment.

  7. j
    September 17, 2010

    odd couple. cool

  8. mouth of the south
    September 17, 2010

    now d/cans not foolish,,,, them pros start taking dno photo of the day for an exibition of their skills,,,,, dat is not a real pic,,, it is photoshopped,,, n e body who watches discovery channel would know the bird would rather eat the lizard than the crumbs,,,,, n no way a lizard staying put by a bird,,,,its natural enemy,,,,, jus how woman fraid snake is so lizard fraid bird,,,, well only my snake dey like

  9. Ras Irie
    September 17, 2010

    A lesson of brotherhood/sisterhood from the “lowly” creatures

  10. Patti
    September 17, 2010

    @OhOH: Sunlight?

  11. OhOH
    September 17, 2010

    That lizard surely does not look real. Look at the the tail part. Why would everywhere be shadowed and right in the centre of the photo is this patch of bright white.

  12. mouth of the south
    September 17, 2010

    the lizard not sharing,,,,, mr wondering ‘how the hell i’m i gonna get that feathered beast off my wall”

  13. Bumble Bee
    September 17, 2010

    Where is that place?

  14. tom
    September 17, 2010

    Brotherly love. We need for Humans to behave like this

  15. aa
    September 17, 2010

    so cool….lol

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