Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Forest whiptail lizard (Kentropyx pelviceps) blinking its eye, showing nictitating membrane crossing the eye, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Oriol Alamany / Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), rainforest of Green Mountains, Lamington National Park, Rainforests of Australia UNESCO World Heritage Site, Queensland, Australia

Cyril Ruoso / Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis) swimming, Pacaya Samiria NP, Amazon, Peru

Cyril Ruoso / Caiman lizard (Dracaena paraguayensis) eating a snail, Pacaya Samiria NP, Amazon, Peru

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Striped Forest Whiptail (Kentropyx calcarata) Iwokrama, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / JP Lawrence / Whiptail lizard (Kentropyx calcarata) Mahury, French Guiana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / JP Lawrence / Whiptail lizard (Kentropyx calcarata) Mahury, French Guiana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Striped Forest Whiptail (Kentropyx calcarata) Iwokrama, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Tim Martin / False Monitor Lizard / Monitor Tegu (Callopistes flavipunctatus). This sub species known as the Tumbesian Tegu. Dry Forest, Northern Peru, April

Tim Martin / False Monitor Lizard / Monitor Tegu (Callopistes flavipunctatus). This sub species known as the Tumbesian Tegu. Dry Forest, Northern Peru, April

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper) snake, swallowing Whiptail Lizard, rainforest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Hog-nosed Pit Viper (Bothrops nasutus) predating Middleamerican Ameiva (Ameiva festiva) lizard note the use of fangs to manipulate prey into snake's mouth, rainforest, Costa Rica