Anole Annals
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Anole Annals is written and edited by scientists who study Anolis lizards. Find source for the latest on Anolis lizards. Find new scientific research, natural history anecdotes, evolution and a wide range of other anole-related information.
Anole Annals
4d ago
Written by Wagner Chaves-Acuña and Diego Salas-Solano Recent fieldwork at the stunning Veragua Rainforest Reserve in Costa Rica’s Caribbean region has brought to light fascinating new insights about Anolis biporcatus, a vibrant green lizard that spends much of its life hidden high in the forest canopy, far from human observation. Through the combined efforts of ..read more
Anole Annals
2w ago
Hard to imagine a more important service than this! Miami resident Julie Katz provides the details: “When I walked out of my condo building one night this past spring to walk my dog I encountered a first – a small lizard feasting on a roach.” Go anoles ..read more
Anole Annals
1M ago
It was late December 2018. My partner in work and life, Matt, and I were headed back to Curaçao to conduct some follow-up sampling. We had recently completed a field season in Curaçao where we had discovered three newly introduced gecko species (Behm et al. 2019). Since we had to fly through Aruba to get ..read more
Anole Annals
1M ago
Rojo A, & L Swierk. 2024. How does rapid body color change affect the conspicuity of lizards to their predators and conspecifics? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 78: 78. Written by Andrés Rojo: The water anole (Anolis aquaticus) is a Costa Rican anole that changes color and pattern in different microhabitats as a form of camouflage to avoid detection by ..read more
Anole Annals
1M ago
The ubiquity of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) in Florida means that they are constantly on my mind. Given the proposition that rapid evolution may be important to invasive species success, I was curious to determine if invasive Brown Anoles in the southeastern United States, centered in Florida, have any morphological differences from Brown Anoles in ..read more
Anole Annals
2M ago
Researchers have thought of putting anoles in experimental wind tunnels. Perhaps this is the next best evidence? Or maybe this was a setup? Either way, we can see the classic anole response to falling. h/t Mike Whitlock ..read more
Anole Annals
2M ago
A dozen years ago, Jonathan Losos explained in these pages how lizards sometimes end up with multiple tail tips, a phenomenon known as tail furcations. My student Tim Baum and I recently published a review of this phenomenon for all lizards and found that published reports of tail furcations exist for 250 species! For the ..read more