Tag Archives: Anolis carolinensis

Cleaner Birds Removing Parasites From Anoles?

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Jonathan Losos

Brian Langerhans, he of mosquitofish fame (but with some anole credentials, such as here  and here), writes from Raleigh, NC: A strange interaction was observed this morning and I’m wondering if you know what’s going on. There are a number … Continue reading →

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What’s All the Fuss About Dewlaps?

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Jonathan Losos

Anolis carolinensis from http://www.mascotissimo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/anolis_carolinensis.jpg A few years ago, Richard Tokarz and colleagues conducted a series of studies in which he surgically disabled the dewlaps of some male A. sagrei and discovered that these functionally dewlapless lizards had no trouble holding … Continue reading →

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Jack Frost Nipping At My Embryos

Posted on October 4, 2011 by chadwatkins

Two weeks ago our building decided to test its emergency power generators.  They assured us there should be no problems (never the case) and that electronics plugged into emergency wall sockets shouldn’t have a disruption in power while others might … Continue reading →

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Perch Compliance and Dumb Luck

Posted on September 26, 2011 by cgilman

Thanks to Duncan Irschick’s insistence that I start a project immediately upon my arrival in the PhD program at UMass, Amherst (and inspiration from a passage in Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree stating that the effects of perch instability on … Continue reading →

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Anolis carolinensis in South Georgia

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Janson Jones

After living much of my life in the anole-saturated forests and neighborhoods of central Florida, somewhere beneath the Spanish Moss, I lived and worked in Anchorage, Alaska for four years. Other than the occasional wood frog, Rana sylvatica, my interactions … Continue reading →

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The Good Life For Green Anoles: Where No Browns Occur

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Jonathan Losos

Brown phase green anole. Photo by Janson Jones at Dust Tracks on the Web (http://dusttracks.com/) At Dust Tracks on the Web, Janson Jones posts some interesting observations on green anoles (A. carolinensis) in northern Florida and southern Georgia, where the brown … Continue reading →

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Carolinensis – Sagrei Hanky Panky

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Jonathan Losos

Those rascals! I’ve heard reports of this before, but never seen a photo. I wonder if it’s always a male green anole, or whether both ways occur. In any case, it would be shocking if such liaisons led to the … Continue reading →

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Anole Research Cleans Up on Awards at JMIH

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Rich Glor

Two posters on anole evolution presented at JMIH last weekend were honored with SSAR poster awards.  Anthony Geneva, a PhD student at the University of Rochester took home the prize in the Evolution, Genetics, & Systematics category for his poster … Continue reading →

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JMIH 2011: More Anole Posters

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Rich Glor

The Sunday night poster session at JMIH 2011 had a few more anole offerings.  Melissa Moody from Iowa State reported on a laboratory experiment on the developmental and fitness consequences of varying Anolis sagrei egg incubation temperature and humidity.  Anolis … Continue reading →

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Strange perch mate

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Joe Burgess

Anoles in Florida really have to deal with some strange neighbors. You just never know who is going to move in next door. Giant day geckos are rapidly expanding their range in the Fla Keys and use a variety of perch sites and … Continue reading →

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A Primer on Filming Anole Behavior – Part 1

Posted on June 8, 2011 by justinhenningsen

I’m in the midst of my fourth summer of field work, and over the course of this time, I have spent many hours filming male Anolis carolinensis. I’ve done this work under several conditions; one project involved filming known animals … Continue reading →

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Anoles, American Style

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Marc Tollis

I will admit here that I used to be a little jealous of other anole catchers. This twinge of want was not necessarily due to any perceived greater intellectual merit of the research, nor to collecting successes in terms of … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Eat Butterflies, Do They?

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Jonathan Losos

Recently, a colleague and I were discussing how university greenhouses could be more profitably used if they were filled with anoles. This led us to discussion of one particular local greenhouse, full of butterflies nattering about for no apparent purpose. … Continue reading →

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NOLA ANOLE

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gregory C. Mayer

During a visit to New Orleans last month , I came across this little fellow. He was about 2 feet up on some broad-leaved plants planted around a tree in Washington Park, at the corner of Frenchmen and Royal Streets … Continue reading →

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