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One Year after Hurricane Maria: Are Anoles Recovering?
Hurricane Maria made landfall in the southeast of Puerto Rico and then traversed the island diagonally, causing widespread and lasting destruction. The storm It has been 14 months since Hurricane Maria...
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Underwater Breathing by a Tropical Lizard
Adult water anole (Anolis aquaticus) from Coto Brus, Costa Rica, with an exhaled – and recycled – air bubble. Photo by Lindsey Swierk. Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating evidence that...
View ArticleColour Change in the Gorgetal Scales of an Anole Dewlap
Anole dewlaps are excellent examples of a “complex signalling system.” They exhibit a staggering diversity of colours and patterns. Each dewlap is species specific and adapted to enable these lizards...
View ArticleAnolis cusuco as Prey of a Praying Mantis
A natural history note published September 2019 in the journal SAURIA details an unusual observation of anolivory by a Praying Mantis. Specifically, it discusses an event involving the predation of a...
View ArticleUndergraduates among the Anoles: Anolis scriptus in the Turks & Caicos
The following was written by Keeley Peek and Alyssa Vanerelli, two research students in the Reynolds Lab at The University of North Carolina Asheville. Here they document some experiences with a...
View ArticleSearching for the Elusive Allison’s Anole in South Florida
Driven by my quest to find Allison’s anoles (A. Allisoni) in the wild, a few weeks ago I dove into a pit of research papers to look for known sightings and/or colonies of A. Allisoni in Florida. I came...
View ArticleSearching for the Elusive Allison’s Anole in South Florida, Part II
After my resounding success mid-October searching for Anolis Allisoni, a rare yet beautiful anole native to Cuba that has been found in Florida, I very recently returned to Naples to search, this...
View ArticleNighttime Day Geckos! You Never Know Where (or When) Phelsuma Are Going to...
New natural history note: “Nocturnal foraging and activity by diurnal lizards: Six species of day gecko (Phelsuma spp.) using the night‐light niche”. A set of observations, recently published in...
View ArticleRobot Lizard Army versus Deadly Predators
Over the years, there has been a lot of discussion on Anole Annals about the large, conspicuous dewlap. And rightly so because it is arguably the most evocative feature of the anoles. Much of this...
View ArticleField Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic
When I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was go outside with my rainbow zebra-stripe notebook and draw any living thing I could find. Often, especially for the animals, I would include little comments...
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