Researchers studied a lizard called the crested anole.

研究人员研究了一种叫做冠变色龙的蜥蜴。

American conservationist Thor Hanson records and measures anole lizards in the Caribbean.

美国环保主义者托尔·汉森对加勒比海地区的变色龙蜥蜴进行记录和测量。

We were interested in one in particular, called Anolis scriptus, the Turks and Caicos anole.

我们对其中一种被称为安乐蜥属的的特克斯和凯科斯变色龙尤为感兴趣。”

He'd just wrapped up his last field season in Texas, studying the green anole lizard.

尚恩刚刚结束了在得克萨斯州进行的野外考察，他研究的是绿色变色龙蜥蜴。

There was this one picture of a green anole that was upside down, dead in the snow.

“那张照片中有一只绿色变色龙腹部朝上、死在了雪地里。

Brazilian peppertrees blocked out the sun, water hyacinths clogged the rivers, and brown anole lizards upset the food chain.

巴西胡椒树遮挡了阳光，水葫芦堵塞了河流，棕色变色蜥蜴扰乱了食物链。

(gentle music) the water anole is a semi-aquatic species with hydrophobic skin that repels water.

（轻音乐）水变色龙是一种半水生物种，具有疏水性皮肤，可以排斥水。

And anoles rebreathe by exhaling air from the lungs into this thin pocket of air.

anoles 通过将肺部的空气呼出到这个薄薄的气囊中来进行再呼吸。

Through 12 years of research, scientists say they have found other semi-aquatic anole species with the same trait.

通过 12 年的研究，科学家表示他们发现了具有相同特征的其他半水生变色蜥。

According to conservation news organization Monga Bay, the water anole behavior was discovered in 2009, during a research expedition in Haiti.

- 据保护新闻机构 Monga Bay 报道，2009 年在海地的一次研究考察中发现了水变色龙的行为。

So when anoles first dive under water, a very thin layer of air forms around the whole body, giving them sort of a shimmery appearance, almost like quicksilver.

因此，当变色龙第一次潜入水下时，全身会形成一层非常薄的空气， 使它们看起来有点闪闪发光， 就像水银一样。

(gentle music) - Rebreathing appears to be a relatively simple behavior in the anole species that exhibit it, and it appears to depend critically on the fact that anole skin is water repellent.

（柔和的音乐）- 重新呼吸似乎是展示它的变色龙物种的一种相对简单的行为，而且它似乎主要取决于变色龙皮肤防水这一事实。

Some anoles, especially those that specialize on a stream habitats, they'll do this dozens of times in a single dive, recycling the air in the bubble and using the oxygen within it.

一些变色龙， 尤其是那些专门生活在溪流栖息地的变色龙，它们会在一次潜水中这样做几十次， 循环气泡中的空气并使用其中的氧气。

From Turks and Caicos Islands: Analysis of anole lizards collected before and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, and 18 months later, revealed that the surviving lizards and their descendants had larger and therefore " grippier" toe pads.

来自特克斯和凯科斯群岛：对 2017 年飓风艾尔玛和玛丽亚前后以及 18 个月后收集的变色龙蜥蜴的分析表明，幸存的蜥蜴及其后代拥有更大的脚趾垫， 因此更“抓地力” 。