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。