The Wonders of Wikipedia

So, I'm sitting at my desk, studying my medium sized camera. Trying to get through a users manual that some Japanese technically minded robot wrote - IN JAPANESE and was translated by some very poor translator robot ... never mind - I KNOW my medium sized camera can do the same things as my large camera - but since there is not a book writing about it in English - for normal people - I may never really know how to use the features.

Frustrated, I look up and see this lovely lizard hanging about on my birdhouse (a common occurrence, mind you):

Then things get weird. He starts bobbing up and down - very fast push ups - and doing who knows what with himself to make this thingy:

Now, I am curious by nature and needed to know. My guess was this bizarre behaviour was some sort of courting ritual since men and courting rituals are bizarre in most every species I've run into ...

but I digress ...

I seriously typed in 'lizard red neck thingy' into google and discovered via Wikipedia that it is called a 'dewlap' - in many species.

I continue on and discover this particular lizard is called an 'Anolis' and that he does attract attention by doing push ups and blowing up his 'dewlap' - satisfied and very pleased with myself I continued to read that they also do it to intimidate rivals - which, who know - maybe he felt intimidated by that woman spying on him from inside the house?

I SERIOUSLY don't know how I survived before Google and Wikipedia - two of my most favourite things on this planet!