Aslam Ibrahim Castellón Maure posted this photo on his Facebook page. Taken in the Zapata Peninsula, it’s a Cuban trogon eating an unidentified anole. The Cuban trogon, or tocoroco, is the national bird of Cuba. But what species of anole? Hispaniolan trogons have also been observed eating anoles. More surprisingly, their lovely relative the quetzal has also been reported to do so, notable because quetzals are thought to be primarily frugivorous.
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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Jesus Reina Carvajal
This one was taken by my friend Aslám. This is an anolis sagrei.
But he knows the record (undocumented) is on my side when I saw a todus multicolor taking a sagrei too. I was I think 13 or 14 years old and didn’t have any camera.
Kevin de Queiroz
Possibly Anolis angusticeps. The head looks a little too wide, but that could be an artifact of being squashed by the bite of the trogon.
Javier Torres
I agree with Kevin de Queiroz. I even dare to say that it’s a male.
Aslam Ibrahim Castellón Maure
Is an Anolis angusticeps, is common on this place!!!!!