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The animal on the cover of MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition, is a green anole. These common lizards can be found in the southeastern United States, the Caribbean, and South America. Green anoles dwell in moist, shady environments, such as trees and shrubs. They subsist on small insects such as crickets, roaches, moths, grubs, and spiders.

Green anoles are slight in build, with narrow heads and long, slender tails that can be twice as long as their bodies. The special padding on their feet enables them to climb, cling, and run on any surface. They range from six to eight inches long. Though, as their name implies, green anoles are usually bright green, their color can change to match their surroundings, varying among gray-brown, brown, and green. Male anoles have pink dewlaps that they extend when courting or protecting their territory.

The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed.