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Conception Island, Bahamas Lizard Survey
A view across Conception Island from the North. Female A. sagrei As part of our saga chasing Anolis sagrei around the Caribbean, we had the incredible fortune to visit the remote Conception Island Bank...
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Reaching Safety
When somebody talks about roads crossing along natural forest, we could think about the perturbation this may cause to local fauna, especially in the Tropics. At least in Panama, wildlife crossings are...
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Blanchard Cave, a Window into the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Squamates...
Over the past few years, two European research programs developed an interest in the ancient fauna and environment of the Guadeloupe islands. The prospection for cave deposits led to the discovery of...
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Anolis sagrei Survey Continued: Eleuthera, The Bahamas
I just got back from a short trip down to Eleuthera in The Bahamas where I was assisting Anthony Geneva (Harvard post-doc) in sampling lizards. Also along for the trip were Sofia Prado-Irwin (Harvard...
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Battling crested anoles (A. cristatellus) in South Miami, FL
While out watching lizards last week with my undergraduate research assistant extraordinaire, Oliver Ljustina, and fellow SoFlo anole Ph.D. student Winter Beckles, we happened upon a pair of male...
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On the importance of Dorsal and Tail Crest Illumination in Anolis Signals
With a flurry of recent attention investigating how background light may influence the signalling efficiency of Anolis dewlaps (1,2,3,4), particularly those inhabiting low-light environments where...
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Brown Anole Predation by Red-bellied Woodpeckers in Florida
While visiting relatives last week in Fort Myers (FL), anole enthusiast and avid wildlife photographer Kyle Wullschleger noticed a commotion among the trees while on an afternoon hike in a small...
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Herpetological Field Weekend in Bimini
I recently accompanied postdoc Anthony Geneva on a collecting trip to the small Bahamian island of Bimini for the shortest field excursion I’ve ever been on – four days in total. We were there to...
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Notes from the Field: Another Successful Bahamian Adventure
I just got back from a trip to the Bahamas with Losos lab post-docs Anthony Geneva and Alexis Harrison, accompanied by expert lizard catchers Inbar Maayan and Sofia Prado-Irwin (Harvard graduate...
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Carrot Rock and the Endemic Anolis ernestwilliamsi
Carrot Rock, a small protrusion of British Virgin Island, links the southern end of Peter Island to the edge of the shelf constituting the Puerto Rico Bank. This <1.3 hectare, steeply sloped island...
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Temporal Variation in Structural Microhabitat Use of Phelsuma Geckos in...
Phelsuma ornata I want to start by thanking Anole Annals for the offer to write a post not about anoles, but about a group of honorary anoles, Phelsuma geckos (Losos, pers. comm.). Our recent...
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Dewlap Displays in Cuban Knight Anoles (A. equestris)
While exploring the grounds of Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens with Janson Jones this past weekend, we extremely fortunately happened upon a large adult male Cuban knight anole (A. equestris) in...
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Notes from the Field: Predation on Anolis sagrei on Isolated Cays in Abaco,...
Curly tail with brown anole tail visible from its mouth Kayaking to cays I was recently in Abaco, Bahamas with Losos lab post-doc Oriol LaPiedra and Ph.D. candidate Darío Fernández-Bellon from...
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Cayman Islands Anolis Research
Amy in the field working on her first noose capture. The following was written by Amy Castle, an undergraduate and Summer Research Fellow in the Reynolds Lab at the University of North Carolina...
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Anole Surveys on the Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas
Map from http://www.sv-galena.com/Trip4/Log8/Log8a.html Alberto Puente-Rolon (Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo) and I were incredibly fortunate to spend a week on the Cay...
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Ecology of the San Salvador Bark Anole (Anolis distichus ocior)
An adult male San Salvador Bark Anole (Anolis distichus ocior) displaying. Photograph by Guillermo G. Zuniga. Dayton Antley and colleagues from Avila University, the home of AA stalwart Bob Powell,...
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JMIH 2016: Rock ‘n’ Bowl Anole
At the JMIH in New Orleans this past July, the 100th anniversary celebration of the ASIH was held at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl, where music, food, drink, dancing, and bowling were enjoyed by all. But for those...
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Field Notes from Long Island, Bahamas
Anolis smaragdinus (left) and Anolis sagrei (right) from Long Island, Bahamas. The individual on the right is marked as part of selection study. This past August, two field assistants and I went to...
View ArticleAnolis maynardi Male-Male Territorial Bout
This video was filmed and shared by Jen Moss of the Welch Lab at Mississippi State University. She observed the encounter near Preston Bay, Little Cayman, and it’s a great video showing this behavior....
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Predation of a Gecko by Anolis pulchellus in the British Virgin Islands
In the most recent issue of Herp Review, Anole Annals stalwarts Kevin de Queiroz and Jonathan Losos documented their account of observing an adult female grass-bush anole (Anolis pulchellus) consume a...
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