Photo by Wendy Frith
I live in Bermuda.
Many years ago, my daughter and I witnessed a large male Graham’s anole devour a small female, same species. We were horrified as we had watched these particular individuals so often we’d named them…the male was Pat Rafter as he spent much of his time up by the porch ceiling light catching bugs there; the victim was Porsche, because she was always on the porch wall railing.
One day, I heard a scream from the porch…not from the lizard, but from my daughter: “Pat is eating Porsche!” and I arrived in time to see him sitting in her favorite spot with her back-half still protruding from his mouth. After the final gulp, he sat basking in the sun for a long time, then waddled off leaving an extra-long turd behind. My daughter and I went over and addressed it, with many apologies. We hadn’t known he was not just merely blue (and turquoise and purple) but was a reptilian Bluebeard…in fact, even worse: a Cannibal Bluebeard!
Drawing by Wendy Frith.
- Anolis cannibalis - May 17, 2025
AsaBee
All reptiles are opportunistic feeders, that a larger one ate a smaller one when it could be observed is like just a coincidence.
Rolly Polly Anole
This is one of the reasons I feed my resident anoles, I like them to be too satisfied to eat one another and too fat to be eaten anyway.
Jacque
How horrible. It isn’t like he was starving.