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    Posted: 30 Jun 2014 at 11:36am


A few images taken this May on the Sefton coast of animals and habitat.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote will Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jun 2014 at 12:37pm
lovely Pete, thanks for posting. I'm (lime) green with envy!
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Agree with Will nice lime green ones Peter. Keith
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Almost like wearing sort of hi-vi jackets. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote will Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jul 2014 at 7:31am
...although in this case the 'high-viz' would reduce their chances of survival rather than enhancing them!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Suzy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Jul 2014 at 12:08am
Yes Will they do rather stick out in that terrain. Amongst certain vegetation they are almost impossible to see.
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Thanks for posting Peter, looking at the pictures is a real treat, wonderful Thumbs Up
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Lots of la from the Frensham little pond area in the 1950s were lime greeners before the habitat was obliterated from existance and replace by pine tree plantations,and ginger Dave will remember those days.Keith

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Dear all,

Thanks for the replies.   Bright lime green indeed and it is commonly perceived that the animals stick out and are easy to spot.   However, the lime green flanks are precisely the same shade of green and shape as emerging leaves at that time of year (May) of a plant that I am uncertain of its ID but is similar looking to plantain, which grows among the marram. Glad you like the pics, I make no apologies for obscuring and blurred marram. :) All pics are in situ and the majority are taken without the animals leaving their basking spots.    I will find a few more to post.   36 animals recorded in total during the 12 hour session on the dunes during which these images were taken. Best wishes all
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another great set of photos Pete. The bottom left even has a male alongside a fresh green leaf for comparison! I guess that there must be some camouflage element to the lime-green, but of course females lack it and males lose it after the breeding season (or at least it fades) implying some cost in terms of natural selection, hence driven in the main by sexual selection. I presume someone will have conducted experiments to test whether mate choice by female sand lizards is influenced by the brightness of the green, as in the classic sexual selection studies such as the redness of the belly of a male stickleback, or the length of the plumes on a bird of paradise.
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