New paper in Nature examines the interaction between green anoles and brown anoles, and how the presence of the predatory curly-tailed lizard changes the balance. See also the commentary by Os Schmitz.
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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William Thompson
I have no curly tail lizards( Leiocephalus carinatus) in my area and will catch and relocate them if they appear.. I don’t want any predation or interference with my anoles while I attempt to study them..
Steven A. Nole
So wrong what they did to those islands and their ecosystems, just so wrong.
I hope the Bahamian government will do the right thing and remove the invasive lizards, restore the former ecosystems, and prevent what happened on those islands from ever happening again.
Driving browns into the treetops and greens into local extinction is not scientific, it’s criminal.
Doug Menke
All of these lizard species are already found in the Bahamas. The tiny islands often don’t have lizards on them due to hurricanes periodically coming through and wiping out the lizard populations. This allowed the ecologists to introduce different combinations of lizards (that already occur on the larger Bahamian islands) onto these tiny islands – which had no lizards prior to the study. This was in no way criminal.