Night Time Activity by the Brown Anole in Guatemala

Night time’s not just for sleeping in the festive anole.

Everyone knows that anoles are diurnal, active by day and snoozing by night. Yet the rascals are opportunistic–light up the night, and they’ll take advantage to extend their carousing and foraging. We’ve had reports on such behavior before [1, 2] in the green and knight anoles (and there are more reports in the literature); now such behavior is reported in the brown anole from Guatemala, in a recent paper by Brown and Arrivillaga published recently in Mesoamerican Herpetology.

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  1. Renoir Auguste

    I’ve observed Anolis aeneus in Trinidad (Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.) active at night as well. On more than one night. Similar setting: a well lit wall after dark. Individuals were mostly observed in a vertical orientation facing upward, and at times downward position.

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