Another Revell Lab (Liam, Kristin, Graham) trip to Puerto Rico this spring, and another series of encounters with the diminutive Anolis occultus and the spectacular Anolis cuvieri. Both of these species can be quite challenging to find, but we have had some good success in several locations in the Puerto Rican karst region. In January, we observed many individuals of both species
And managed to get a few in-hand for pictures
We also found a juvenile cuvieri, which has a gray coloration and an ontogenetic shift to green as they age:
Unless they happen to be one of the brown morph adults, which are rare compared to the green morphs. We did fi
nd one brown morph out of perhaps a dozen green:
In March, we also succeeded in finding individuals of both species at a different location
Some spectacular animals!
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- Anoles and Drones, a Dispatch from Island Biology 2019 - August 26, 2019
Jonathan Losos
Fantastic! We know almost nothing about the natural history of A. occultus, other than where it sleeps. It would be a great project for someone to find them at night and then come back at dawn and watch what they do during the day.
Pat Shipman
Spectacular is the word! Beautiful — and tiny.