Anolis equestris displaying. Photo by Ultra Violet.
We at AA obviously have a soft spot for those monstrously grotesque, yet winningly appealing giants of the anole world. Here’s a lovely picture that just passed through the tweet-o-sphere. Good pictures of knight anoles dewlapping are few and far between, and Ultra Violet kindly allowed us to reproduce it here.
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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Miguel Landestoy
Nice lighting and picture overall! I agree that giant anoles are seldom photographed dewlapping, at least in Hispaniola, it is difficult to even see one doing so, they are pretty skittish.