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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taguata.

You wouldn't think that studying lizards is a particularly dangerous profession.

Until that is, sheriffs approach you with their guns drawn.

We get the cops caught on us sometimes.

Bree Putman, a behavioral ecologist at UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

Her colleague at the museum, Greg Polly, really did end up on the wrong side of a gun once,

and here's why.

A lot of times we're doing work at night in people's neighborhoods, and we're like using

flashlights to look for geckos on the sides of people's houses.

And so sometimes people will think we're criminals or burglars or

something. The museum's solution was neon orange shirts with a museum logo. And we call these shirts

the don't shoot me shirt. But the bright orange left Putman with a concern that the color would

spook the very animals they were trying to study. So she devised an experiment.

I basically designed the study to show to the museum staff that these shirts were not going to be

good for research. And that's what I found. In her trials, Putman wore tank tops of various colors,

red, gray, light blue, dark blue, and then attempted

to approach and capture western fence lizards in public and private parkland in L.A. And she found that

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