Here’s a new, working link for this video, and here’s what we said about it a year and a half ago:
We’ve been privileged to see a number of great videos of Cuban anoles recently [1,2], and here’s another, an hour-long documentary on Cuban wildlife in Spanish entitled “Cuba. La Isla Salvaje del Caribe.” It goes without saying that the anoles steal the show. There’s an excellent 2.5 minutes of anole footage beginning at the 38:46 mark, highlighted by lovely shots of a male A. allisoni and video of Chamaeleolis (also homolechis, sagrei or a close relative, a pale-dewlapped grass anole, porcatus and lucius). In addition, just before this, there’s a nice depiction of how Cuba was split into three islands when sea-levels were higher.
Oh, and here’s the video in English:
Kevin de Queiroz
Was that guy with the pale dewlap a grass anole or a twig anole? I thought it looked like A. angusticeps.
Jonathan Losos
Kevin is referring to this image, at the 39:25 point of the video. The color and pattern look to me more like a grass-bush anole. I can’t remember which Cuban grass-bush anole might have a dewlap like that. The thumbnail photo of A. alutaceus on Caribherp sort of looks like that.
Peter Tolson
Wow, did anyone notice that the boa predation footage in the video is of a Puerto Rican boa?