Writing on the blog Cultured Vultures, Karl Koweski reports on a community college classroom exercise that involves coloring in anole ecomorphs and Caribbean anoles with different colored crayons. Surprisingly, he’s not thrilled about it.
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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Don’t discount coloring writ-large. This particular activity is bilge water, but coloring can be a great way to learn anatomy and physiology. I believe that was a core teaching tool in the intro classes at my undergrad.