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 co...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2024/03/11/field-drawings-of-anoles-in-the-dominican-republic/
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 thi...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2021/06/09/robot-lizard-army-versus-deadly-predators/
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 publish...
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, ...
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...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2020/10/31/searching-for-the-elusive-allisons-anole-in-south-florida/
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...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2020/07/14/undergraduates-among-the-anoles/
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 ...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2019/10/13/anolis-cusuco-as-prey-of-a-praying-mantis/
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 th...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2019/10/08/colour-change-in-the-gorgetal-scales-of-an-anole-dewlap/
Over the past few years, I’ve been accumulating evidence that the water anole (Anolis aquaticus) might be a tiny scuba diver in the streams of its home in southern Costa Rica. Anolis aquati...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2018/12/20/underwater-breathing-by-a-tropical-lizard/
The storm It has been 14 months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The category 4 hurricane was the largest and most destructive to hit the island in the last 90 ...
https://www.anoleannals.org/2018/12/06/one-year-after-hurricane-maria-are-anoles-recovering/