It opens this brightly-colored frill to frighten enemies. These climbing lizards live in trees in humid forests and eat cicadas, ants, spiders and smaller lizards. Adult females lay 8 to 14 eggs per clutch in spring and summer. They evolved during the late Triassic period and are a type of reptile. The cuckoo is a bird whose call sounds like its name.
Many cuckoos live in rainforest canopies throughout the world.
They evolved during the Mississippian Period, about 360-325 mya. The emerald tree boa, Corallus caninus , is a green snake with white bands. This snake catches food with its long teeth then squeezes it. It eats birds and rodents. It opens this brightly-colored frill to frighten enemies.