A brown anole from Sarasota. Photo by Rick Greenspun.
One of the most popular topics on Anole Annals are posts (such as this one) on orange- or even red-colored brown anoles. We regularly get comments on old posts on this topic, as well as people reporting new sightings. The most recent is shown above, sent to us by Rick Greenspun from Sarasota, who says this is the first such anole seen there in the 47 years he has lived there.
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 had a sighting of an orange in Jacksonville, Florida this morning.