Green Anole Habitat Use When There Are No Brown Anoles

Wake up, green anoles. Spring is on the way.

We’ve had a lot of discussion of perch height in the green anole, A. carolinensis, and whether or not greens shift their habitat use downward in places where brown anoles, A. sagrei, don’t occur. AA’s man in Georgia, Janson Jones, reported last year that he often found greens very near to the ground, even on water plants. It’s a new year, things are warming up, and the greens are getting active. Janson has vowed to keep a close eye on all things anole this year, and a while back he just posted his first report over on Dust Tracks on the Web. Early reports are that the green anoles are messing with our minds again. Let’s see what happens as the summer progresses.

Jonathan Losos

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2 Comments

  1. In Jackson, Mississippi, there are as yet no browns and the greens forage on the ground and typically perch as low on veg as 1 m.

  2. Jeffrey Himmelstein

    I live in Plantation, Florida and have both carolinensis and sagrei in my gardens where the sagrei are considerably more numerous then the carolinensis. It seems as if the carolinensis are almost always seen on the foliage about a meter above the ground, and the sagrei are all over the place, particularly at ground level. At night they are often high on the walls around the spotlights, often near Hemidactylus mabouia. I might add that there is also a healthy population of Basiliscus vittatus, I. iguana , and several A.equestris living here as well.

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