But these are no Fiats or Alfa Romeos. Those, Carolyn Caldwell might appreciate. These are lizards: European wall lizards, to be precise. They sunbathe on the sidewalks and nestle in the rocky ...

The Italian wall lizard—a cigar-size Mediterranean reptile with a green back, mottled copper flanks, and a whiplike tail—is more or less the animal you picture when someone says the word ...