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Pop quiz: What do Anolis and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum have in common?  Answer: A Google problem.

Rick Santorum’s google problem is that the first hits you obtain when you google “Santorum” are related to the author Dan Savage’s efforts to criticize Santorum’s campaign against homosexuality.

What’s Anolis‘s google problem?  

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This brings up a bigger question: why isn’t there a spokesanole for any major company?

Still looking for the perfect gifts for friends and family? Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like an anole-themed present!

• For the wine connoisseur: These wine glass charms can double as necklace pendants! They are also the perfect way to spice up your holiday parties.
• For the home decorator: There’s nothing better to see just as you enter a room than a charming light switch plate.
• For the fashionista: These headbands are sure to be seen on the runways any day now. Who doesn’t want to look like they have an anole crawling through their hair?!
• For the green thumb: If you can’t have real anoles in your garden, the next best thing is a ceramic one.
• For the coffee lover: Now the caffeine addict in your life can enjoy their morning cup with an anole in hand.
• For the businessman: This stylish anole tie is sure to impress the boss at the next board meeting!
• For the dog: Even man’s best friend can show off his/her love for anoles.

I hope that these fool-proof gifts will ease your stress this holiday season!

Clockwise from top left: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, and You

What do all these people have in common? Well, they’re all poets in case you didn’t know it. On Nov. 21 2009, two years ago to the day, Jonathan Losos contributed the first Anole Annals blog post. The post contained a few of my Anolis themed haikus including:

Poe named an anole
williamsmittermeieror’m:
Ponder, weak, weary.
AND
Perched on a warm day,
Dewlap dewlap dewlap dew –
Blackbird predation.

In celebration of two years and 369 anole-related posts that followed, Anole Annals is hosting a poetry slam for all you anole wordsmiths out there.

Over the next two weeks, we challenge you to create a poem or poems in any form (e.g. haiku, limerick, sonnet, lyric, quatrain etc.). The only requirement is that they relate to anoles in some way. 

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the altercation by Flickr user Dixie Native

I recently stumbled across a Flickr pool dedicated to beautiful images of anoles – Anolis Decorus.  From the pool’s description:

Photographs of anole lizards. This group is open to all, but a very high standard will be maintained so please submit only your best photographs. No photographs of dead or dying lizards please. The emphasis of the photograph should be on the lizard (ergo: please post photographs of Anole lizards, not photographs with lizards in them).

Some AA bloggers (and I assume readers) have contributed images. The pool includes a diverse array of Anolis species and includes some stunning photography. The picture above is yet another example of carolinensis/sagrei encounters like that posted previously here.  Overall there are some really high quality images, check them out.

And here’ s more information on these classic prints. The webpage of the NYPL Digital Gallery proclaims that it “is The New York Public Library’s image database, developed to provide free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of The Library. Spanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and visual media, NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of The Library, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.”

Most importantly, of course, these holdings include classic paintings of anoles, including those by Catesby and others. For example, searching using the term “Anolis” yields 12 paintings, including those of A. carolinensis, A. cuvieri, A. sagrei and others. Be forewarned that they are categorized by the name used in their original source. Holbrook’s drawings from North American Herpetology were just added (thanks to CNAH for bringing this to AA’s attention), but our beloved North American green is categorized as Anolius carolinensis.

And for those of you who’ve already begun your holiday shopping, prints of these images are available at a reasonable cost.