I’m always amazed by the ability of anoles to survive–even prosper!–with dramatic injuries. How could a lizard get by missing half of a hind leg? How does it capture prey or escape predators? Display credibly? But they do. We’ve reported incidents of three-legged lizards before, and are always looking for more examples.
The photo above is a fine example, reported by Karen Cusick on Daffodil’s Photo Blog. The brown anole also had a mysterious dent on its site. Must have been a traumatic event.
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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Brian Hillen
I saw this double amputee brown basilisk a few years ago in Miami at Fairchild Garden, I was pretty amazed with it as well 🙂
http://cyclicalcore.deviantart.com/art/Amazing-Basilisk-1-396183856
http://cyclicalcore.deviantart.com/art/Amazing-basilisk-2-396183896
Jonathan Losos
Wow! That’s extraordinary!