httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0bkDhKeeQ4
Thanks to the former student, who sent me the link.
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Presumably the green anole didn’t catch this moth, which suggests that it was scavenging. Anoles are generally thought to be attracted to movement as a stimulus for feeding behavior, though there are some exceptions, so this is quite interesting.
Yoel Stuart
Interesting habitat. Pine needles in the background suggest some sort of pine forest but I also see some ?palm fronds?. Where is this?
Also, I guess the hard earned moth meal was still energetically more beneficial than those ants crawling in the background.
Robert Powell
The video was shot in September 2007 at Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands. The moth is Thyas coronata. The video’s description states that the anole caught the moth while the moth was mating.