Scott Trageser posted this photo on Herpnation of Anolis leachii eating a gecko in Codrington, Barbuda. Here’s a few more details he sent while travelling in Madagascar: “The story was, I was photographing the gecko for a distribution note and the A. leachii came down and grabbed before I could even pull the shot off! The leachi would stay high in the trees so despite being large, we seldom saw them.”
Note: it is proper to spell leachii with two “ii”‘s
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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george z
So anolephilic. Geckos have scientific names as well.
Jonathan Losos
Go on…
Skip Lazell
Big anoles eat Sphaeros regularly; is this not in the lit? Yes, what kind of gecko?
James Stroud
Looks like Hemidactylus turcicus to me