Admittedly, they were in a piece on space geckos, but you gotta’ take fame where you can get it. Catch the clip here before Youtube takes it down.
And note that this is not the first time anoles have been mistaken for geckos by journalists. Let’s not forget the segment on the Sunday Morning CBS show, a misstep for which AA led the blogosphere in breaking the news and eventually received a mea culpa from CBS.
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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I need to play this clip before every field trip. This is like pump up music for herpetologists.