I’ll give one hint: it started something like this.
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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Skip Lazell
That anole is clearly INSIDE the car, so I’m betting it escaped, briefly, from a herpetologist….
Bill Bateman
I’m not so sure! Twice now I have transported brown anoles to the south to north of Florida, inside the car, by mistake. Open windows and the car parked under vegetation meant easy ingress. Both of them were transferred to reptile bags and taken back down south when caught – though others may have made it undetected.
Justin Sponholz
Someone left their car window open an I believe someone wanted to visit the north lol.
Gerrut Norval
I would say that is an extreme case of “vehicular-rafting”, or maybe it would be better to call it “vehicular-shuttling”! I once tried to collect a brown anole, but had to give up when it “vanished”. When I got back to the lab, I was shocked to find it perching on top of my open backpack. Lesson: do not place your backpack on the ground near brown anoles you are trying to collect; especially if the backpack is open.
P.S. Hopefully later this month, a short note of ours will be published in Herpetology Notes about a Hemidactylus frenatus that went traveling on the rear-view mirror of a car. If you are interested, let me know and I will send you the link when it is published.
Uwe Bartelt
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hope you can open this link
sorry
Peter Mudde
I have had similar experiences. Once traveling through Thailand, after an hour drive a little skink appeared outside, on the windshield wiper. Must have been hiding in the motor somewhere and driven out by the heat.
Another more frustrating experiencce I had once when I brought a few vivaria to an exposition. Once was a ‘Copy of Curacao’ in which I housed my single killer A lineatus female. Whilst driving along the highway, I saw a very little anole jump on the steering wheel.. Now I hadn’t seen any juveniles from this species, but as it was the only anole on board, I was quite sure this was a very juvenile A. lineatus
Now what to do?
The highways in the Netherlands are quite busy. If, only if I could grab it, I hadn’t any container available..
It jumped out of my sight and disappeared forever in the car.
I have had juveniles lateron, so I am quite sure it wasn’t a hallucination.. but still ,