Category: Ask the Experts

Information Requested on Anolis aequatorialis

José Ernesto Pérez Villota, a Colombian student, is looking for information on the population structure of A. aequatorialis, or of any other Colombian anole.  He is particularly interested if some populations have sex ratios deviating from 1:1.  If you have any such information, contact him at jeperezv@gmail.com.

ID the Anole


This photograph was taken by a colleague visiting some of Belize’s offshore islands.  I’m pretty sure I recognize this species from my time in mainland Belize, but I thought I’d open it up to the community for additional opinions.  What species do you think this is?

Information Sought on Anole Playing Dead Behavior

My name is John Phillips. I am an undergraduate in Kirsten Nicholson’s lab at Central Michigan. Kirsten and I were discussing some interesting behavior I observed by A. laeviventris and A. cupreus during our Nicaragua trip last summer. Multiple individuals upon capture appeared to ‘play dead’ until I stopped holding them securely, whence they suddenly sprang to life and escaped. Kirsten thought you may know of any related instances of such behavior in anoles, and she has encouraged me to write this observation up in Herp Review so I was wondering if anyone knew of related instances in other anoles.   If so, could you email me at: phill1jg@cmich.edu?

Ecuadorian Anole Advice Needed

My name is Frederik Sachser and I am studying Biology at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany and at the moment I am about to start writing my Bachelor thesis. I want to study the influences of the eyespots of Caligo on Anoles at “Un poco del Choco” in Ecuador next March. I heard that there is a wet season at this time and I am wondering if the anoles are showing less activity because of this.  Can anyone advise me?  My email is Frederik.Sachser@uni-duesseldorf.de.

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