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.
I’m always amazed by the ability of anoles to survive–even prosper!–with dramatic injuries. How could a lizard get by missing half of a hind leg? How does it capture prey or escape predators? Display credibly? But they do. We’ve reported incidents of three-legged lizards before, and are always looking for more examples.
The photo above is a fine example, reported by Karen Cusick on Daffodil’s Photo Blog. The brown anole also had a mysterious dent on its site. Must have been a traumatic event.
Surely green anoles would love it here
Bob Henderson writes to ask:
“Can anyone tell me the source of the record of Anolis carolinensis/porcatus on Canouan in the St. Vincent Grenadines?
It is listed as a waif in the Lesser Antilles island list by Henderson & Breuil (pp. 148–159 in Powell & Henderson, 2012. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Florida Mus. Nat Hist. Bull. 51: 85–166).”
Help, anyone?
From Yesterday’s Jeopardy round. Thanks to Joel McGlothlin for the videography, and Ian McGlothlin for the soundtrack. Note also Alex Trebek’s pronunciation of anole. And further note that Jeopardy has an understandable thing for anoles, having featured another anole question two years ago.
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.”
Read–and hear–Chris Austin of LSU tell all about Red Stick’s Green Anoles. Plus, the photo gallery has a nifty photo of a kestrel with a green anole in its talons.
Available as a print on Nadilyn Beato’s Etsy shop, along with lovely drawings of many other animals.
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As 2015 comes to an end, now is a good time to reflect on the year in Anole Annals. Fortunately, our good friends at WordPress have provided us with a nice summary.
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At last we’ve found a place in the Caribbean that Anolis sagrei hasn’t invaded: Cuba! Because, of course, A. sagrei is native there, as well as 63 other species of anoles. In fact, there are no introduced anoles on Cuba, which is quite unusual. There are, however, a number of other herps that have invaded there, as a recent paper in Herpetological Conservation and Biology by Borroto-Páez discusses. Here’s the abstract:
The number of introductions and resulting established populations of amphibians and reptiles in Caribbean islands is alarming. Through an extensive review of information on Cuban herpetofauna, including protected area management plans, we present the first comprehensive inventory of introduced amphibians and reptiles in the Cuban archipelago. We classify species as Invasive, Established Non-invasive, Not Established, and Transported. We document the arrival of 26 species, five amphibians and 21 reptiles, in more than 35 different introduction events. Of the 26 species, we identify 11 species (42.3%), one amphibian and 10 reptiles, as established, with nine of them being invasive: Lithobates catesbeianus, Caiman crocodilus, Hemidactylus mabouia, H. angulatus, H. frenatus, Gonatodes albogularis, Sphaerodactylus argus, Gymnophthalmus underwoodi, and Indotyphlops braminus. We present the introduced range of each of the 26 species in the Cuban archipelago as well as the other Caribbean islands and document historical records, the population sources, dispersal pathways, introduction events, current status of distribution, and impacts. We compare the situation of introduced herpetofauna in Cuba with that in other Caribbean islands. We also document impacts, areas of missing information, and possible directions for future research. The paper contributes a systematic review as well as new knowledge for national and international agencies and databases. This information is critical for use in conservation, management, and eradication. Additionally, it alerts management authorities as to specific pathways of introduction for proactive action, which may be used to avoid potential introductions.
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