Does anybody have some pictures of wild Anolis smallwoodi or Anolis ricordii that they could send me? If so, please send them to me at wbaugher@nashvillezoo.org. They are for personal use for comparing animals in a collection. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.
Author: williambaugher
A. smallwoodi
C. barbatus
C. porcus
A. smallwoodi
A. smallwoodi
Well, I got with another Staff member here and took some photos for the header competition a while back, but we never got around to editing them in time. However, I have them now and thought I’d share them with you anyway. These are a few of the different species that we work with.
Will Baugher
Acrobatic bushmaster says hello!
At the Nashville Zoo we have a large mixed species exhibit that contains two species of dart frog, a bushmaster, Gonatodes, and 2.3 Roquet’s anoles (Savannah anoles). We are working on some new graphics where we hope to incorporate videos, and in that attempt we captured some great footage of our two male A. roquet displaying towards one another. The two males are approximately a foot apart and right in front of the glass of the exhibit. The females were watching anxiously as shortly after the video stops one male chases the other up a tree. I hope you enjoy the clips.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66876684@N04/6086156957/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66876684@N04/6086649388/in/photostream/
Does anyone out there have good info or maybe a paper or two about the vitamin A requirement for Anolis lizards? We are having minor eye issues in our collection from time to time and when given vitamin A supplements, the problems seem to go away. They are always provided with the same vitamin/mineral/calcium suppliments as our other lizards, but I thought that maybe their requirement for the vitamin was greater than the other animals in our collection. Sometimes even the babies come out with “gunky” eyes, and we are not sure of the cause. Does anyone else ever have this problem?
Any help would be much appreciated. We are also looking for “normal” blood level values for these lizards, as our studies have shown that they have a much higher calcium level than we expected, especially in females.
Thanks for any help,
Will
I was wondering if anyone has some good information, published or otherwise, on the normal values found within a blood sample for an anolis species? We have been doing some sampling within our collection and are looking for something with which to compare our results. We have Chamaeleolis porcus, barbatus, and chamaeleonides, as well as Anolis ricordi and smallwoodi. The blood samples that we have taken are all from our porcus. The only values that our vets currently have to compare to are those from a veiled chameleon, and being an old world species, I don’t know how well that translates to Anolis. The calcium phosphorus ratio looks pretty close to normal, but the calcium level is almost three times as high as we expected. Is this possibly normal for a lizard that is a snail specialist? Any other information that you could give me would also be much appreciated.
Thank you for any help,
Will