{"id":2838,"date":"2026-06-15T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:05:10","slug":"eastern-collared-lizard-watches-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/lizards\/eastern-collared-lizard-watches-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Collared Lizard Watches Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brilliantly colored <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/lizards\/crotaphytus\/collaris\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"251\">Eastern Collared Lizard<\/a> from the eastern edge of Arizona. This one watched us carefully from atop low boulders along an otherwise flat field, and allowed a single photograph before it disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotaphytus-collaris_0373-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brilliantly colored Eastern Collared Lizard from the eastern edge of Arizona. This one watched us carefully from atop low boulders along an otherwise flat field, and allowed a single photograph before it disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251,250,137],"tags":[38,775],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaris","category-crotaphytus","category-lizards","tag-arizona","tag-apache-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}