In a previous post, I reviewed the diversity of Anolis lizards north of the Andes in South America. In this post I continue on that theme with a review of the diversity of anoles in the Amazon and …

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13.12.2024

Rare Anoles Featured in BioBlitz Trailer! – Anole Annals

How many anoles can you find?

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02.12.2024

Research on the Lizard Wars of South Florida – Anole Annals

from the front page of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, above the fold! The lizard wars of South Florida help reveal how evolution works By Bill Kearney | South Florida Sun Sentinel PUBLISHED: Novem…

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01.12.2024

Bubble-Breathing Anoles and an Interview with Lindsey Swierk – Anole Annals

When I started my blog, The Adventures of a Young Naturalist, I was just 10 years old, writing about whatever captured my curiosity. Fast forward to today, and here I am, celebrating the 50th post …

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23.10.2024

Etymologies of All Anoles – Anole Annals

Collecting reptile names is one thing, but it’s a different thing to figure out what these names actually mean. At the Reptile Database we have collected the etymologies of more than 11,000 reptile…

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08.10.2024

Anoles of South America Part 1: Diversity North of the Andes – Anole Annals

Although anoles are much more well studied and understood in the Caribbean and United States, there is a decent amount of diversity of these lizards throughout South America as well. In consultatio…

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05.10.2024

Profile Photos of Green Anoles Needed – Anole Annals

Hello fellow anole enthusiasts! I’m reaching out because I’m in need of some specific anole photos for my research. I’m currently wrapping up my dissertation on the diversification of the Ano…

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16.09.2024

Through Local Eyes: Unveiling the Biology of Anolis biporcatus with Citizen Science – Anole Annals

Written by Wagner Chaves-Acuña and Diego Salas-SolanoRecent fieldwork at the stunning Veragua Rainforest Reserve in Costa Rica’s Caribbean region has brought to light fascinating new insights about…

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05.09.2024

Diet Notes on Beautiful Blue Knight Anole – Anole Annals

Read all about it!

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03.09.2024

Anoles Provide Ecosystem Services – Anole Annals

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 encount…

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09.08.2024

Non-native Herpetofauna of Aruba: the Art and Science of Documenting Species Invasions – Anole Annals

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 …

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07.08.2024

Mississippi Kite Eats Green Anole – Anole Annals

From Twitter

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07.08.2024

Lanceolated Monklet Eats a Slender Anole – Anole Annals

Read all about it in Herpetology Notes.

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05.08.2024

How Do Body Color Changes Affect an Anole’s Conspicuousness to Conspecifics and Predators? – Anole Annals

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 A…

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30.07.2024

Limited Morphological Differences of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) between Their Native Cuban and Invasive Florida Range – Anole Annals

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 cur…

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19.07.2024

What Happens to Anoles in Hurricanes? – Anole Annals

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 …

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15.07.2024

A Tale of Many-Tailed Anoles and Many Other Tails – Anole Annals

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 …

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13.07.2024

Help The Reptiles of Ecuador Get Published! – Anole Annals

Hear about what’s need here. And here’s the story behind the book.

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11.07.2024

Forbes Promotes New Colombian Guide to Anoles – Anole Annals

from the pages of Forbes: How Do You Tell Colombia’s Bright, Zany Anole Lizards Apart? Andrew Wight Updated Jul 9, 2024, 10:27am EDT A group of passionate lizard scientists have published a guide t…

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22.06.2024

Following the Expansion of Anolis sagrei in Ecuador – Anole Annals

While reading reports on the colonization events of the brown anole and its impacts on local fauna, I never thought I would have the chance to see this lizard, so interesting from an ecological poi…

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12.06.2024

Introducing the illustrated Field Guide to the Anolis Lizards of Colombia – Anole Annals

Hey fellow Anole lovers! We are a group of passionate Colombians who are absolutely fascinated by Anolis lizards. You know, those charming little reptiles with their vibrant dewlaps and incredible …

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08.06.2024

Getting Anole Research “Out There”: New Book on Anole Lizard Research for Schoolkids – Anole Annals

I enjoyed visiting with anole researchers for my book “The Lizard Scientists” so much that I wanted to give nonscientists an example of the hard work it takes to learn about how Natur…

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21.05.2024

Have Invasive Anoles (and Basilisks and Agamas) Been Commercialized? – Anole Annals

Subrata Das writes: The area of my interest is the commercialization of invasive species for leather, meat, hair, fur, bristles and by-products. Of late I am researching invasive anoles, agamas and…

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13.05.2024

Mapping Anole Operative Temperature with Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – Anole Annals

A lot of us have been there…. setting up what seems like endless 3D anole replicas, often in the tropical heat, messing around with countless iButtons (which are a nightmare to get out of the repli…

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29.04.2024

Little Jamaican Twig Anole Fends off Attack by Much Larger Grackle with Open-Mouthed Dewlap Display – Anole Annals

Biologist Damion Whyte reports from Jamaica: On April 11, 2024, at 10:50 am, Mrs. Lisa Bowman Lee was at her garage in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. She saw a Greater Antillean Grackle (Quisca…

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27.03.2024

Hurricanes Shape Puerto Rican Anole Distributions – Anole Annals

The Caribbean’s history of tropical cyclones (e.g., hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions) is well-known, and a number of studies have quantified how anole populations differ befo…

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17.03.2024

New Article on Anolis roosevelti and the Question of Its Survival – Anole Annals

We’ve had a number of posts in the past about the enigmatic A. roosevelti, last seen alive in more than 90 years ago. Here’s an interesting summary of the species and how its specter ha…

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16.03.2024

Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater – Anole Annals

From the pages of Binghamton University’s In the fascinating world of semi-aquatic lizards, the anoles have emerged as the scuba-diving champions, capable of staying submerged for over 16 min…

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12.03.2024

Field Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic – Anole Annals

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 comm…

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04.02.2024

Undergraduate With Her Own Funding Looking For A Field Assistant Position – Anole Annals

Hello Anolophiles! Could anyone use a free undergraduate field assistant this summer for any squamate evolution or conservation projects, preferably outside of the U.S.? I am an undergraduate stude…

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19.01.2024

The Trophic Niche of Lizards in María Cleofas Island – Anole Annals

I woke up after spending the whole night in motion and listening to the engine noise as a crib song. Some years ago, it had been a crab boat in Alaska and it was now equipped to do biological resea…

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07.01.2024

Do Large Brown Anoles Get the Most Mating Opportunities? – Anole Annals

This post is an update of one from 2020. Below is the old post based on a presentation by Rachana Bhave at the 2020 SICB meetings. Rachana has now done the genetic parentage studies and published t…

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27.11.2023

An Evolutionary Trade-off of Strategies in the Bones of Anoles – Anole Annals

We recently published (together with Alex Tinius and Luke Mahler) a paper in Evolution in which we explore how the strength of the femur of Anolis lizards might be attained by two independent mecha…

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25.11.2023

A New, High-quality Genome for a Well-studied Anole from Panama – Anole Annals

We recently published a chromosome-scale assembly of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus) genome, a species that has been studied for decades at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in P…

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01.11.2023

A Good Week in Anole Genomics – Anole Annals

This week, anoles are in the genomic spotlight for three papers– Pirani et al. (2023), Taft et al. (2023), and Farleigh et al. (2023). I’ve briefly highlighted each below, but check em&…

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29.10.2023

Cases of Interspecific Hybridization within Anolis of the bimaculatus Group Produced in a Private Breeding Facility – Anole Annals

We all know examples of interspecific hybrids in animals such as the Liger, the Zhorse or the Calico Chuckwalla or even intergeneric hybrids in plants such as orchids. Even within Anolis, th…

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13.10.2023

Puerto Rico Herpetology Symposium – Anole Annals

The 7th annual Puerto Rico Herpetology Symposium will be held in just 3 weeks at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Arecibo. Although we considered combining our anole meeting with this amazing even…

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10.09.2023

The Making of The Reptiles of Ecuador – Anole Annals

reprinted with permission How Do You Create a Book about All the Reptiles of a Mega-diverse Country? Reptiles of Ecuador | Story of the book By Alejandro Arteaga. August 2023. Everyone grasps the f…

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09.09.2023

More Cases of Spiders Eating Anoles – Anole Annals

We’ve reported on this a number of times previously. Here are two more examples from Costa Rica.

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08.09.2023

Gray-dewlapped Green Anoles – Anole Annals

from the pages of Floridensis: ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS, 15 MARCH 2018 Posted on Thu 7 September 2023 by Janson Jones Anolis carolinensis, the Carolina green anole; Collier county, Florida (15 March 201…

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Anoles of South America Part 2: Diversity South of the Andes – Anole Annals

Rare Anoles Featured in BioBlitz Trailer! – Anole Annals

Research on the Lizard Wars of South Florida – Anole Annals

Bubble-Breathing Anoles and an Interview with Lindsey Swierk – Anole Annals

Etymologies of All Anoles – Anole Annals

Anoles of South America Part 1: Diversity North of the Andes – Anole Annals

Profile Photos of Green Anoles Needed – Anole Annals

Through Local Eyes: Unveiling the Biology of Anolis biporcatus with Citizen Science – Anole Annals

Diet Notes on Beautiful Blue Knight Anole – Anole Annals

Anoles Provide Ecosystem Services – Anole Annals

Non-native Herpetofauna of Aruba: the Art and Science of Documenting Species Invasions – Anole Annals

Mississippi Kite Eats Green Anole – Anole Annals

Lanceolated Monklet Eats a Slender Anole – Anole Annals

How Do Body Color Changes Affect an Anole’s Conspicuousness to Conspecifics and Predators? – Anole Annals

Limited Morphological Differences of Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) between Their Native Cuban and Invasive Florida Range – Anole Annals

What Happens to Anoles in Hurricanes? – Anole Annals

A Tale of Many-Tailed Anoles and Many Other Tails – Anole Annals

Help The Reptiles of Ecuador Get Published! – Anole Annals

Forbes Promotes New Colombian Guide to Anoles – Anole Annals

Following the Expansion of Anolis sagrei in Ecuador – Anole Annals

Introducing the illustrated Field Guide to the Anolis Lizards of Colombia – Anole Annals

Getting Anole Research “Out There”: New Book on Anole Lizard Research for Schoolkids – Anole Annals

Have Invasive Anoles (and Basilisks and Agamas) Been Commercialized? – Anole Annals

Mapping Anole Operative Temperature with Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – Anole Annals

Little Jamaican Twig Anole Fends off Attack by Much Larger Grackle with Open-Mouthed Dewlap Display – Anole Annals

Hurricanes Shape Puerto Rican Anole Distributions – Anole Annals

New Article on Anolis roosevelti and the Question of Its Survival – Anole Annals

Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater – Anole Annals

Field Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic – Anole Annals

Undergraduate With Her Own Funding Looking For A Field Assistant Position – Anole Annals

The Trophic Niche of Lizards in María Cleofas Island – Anole Annals

Do Large Brown Anoles Get the Most Mating Opportunities? – Anole Annals

An Evolutionary Trade-off of Strategies in the Bones of Anoles – Anole Annals

A New, High-quality Genome for a Well-studied Anole from Panama – Anole Annals

A Good Week in Anole Genomics – Anole Annals

Cases of Interspecific Hybridization within Anolis of the bimaculatus Group Produced in a Private Breeding Facility – Anole Annals

Puerto Rico Herpetology Symposium – Anole Annals

The Making of The Reptiles of Ecuador – Anole Annals

More Cases of Spiders Eating Anoles – Anole Annals

Gray-dewlapped Green Anoles – Anole Annals

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