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To celebrate Anole Annals‘ move to a new platform (https://www.anoleannals.org/), yesterday we announced a photography competition–winning photographs will be put into the rotation of header images displayed at the banner at the top of the page. And now we add a sweetener to the pot. The Grand Prize winner will receive a copy of Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation personally signed, with great embellishment and profuse gratitude, by the author himself. Surely a valued keepsake for years to come!

In order to be considered, an image must be precisely 1000 pixels wide by 288 pixels high.  We’ll credit you as photographer wherever possible, but ask that images not include any text or watermarks.  You can submit your images using our blog’s new ability to easily add images to a comment; just click the “Choose File” link beneath the comment box and navigate to your JPEG photo.  One way to do this is to use Photoshop to resize individual images. From the Image Menu: go to “Image Size” then change the width to 1000 px.

Get your photos in now. Deadline some time soon, once we have enough good entries. Good luck! May the best photographer win!

Screen shot of Anolis sagrei male and female from The Runner

Anole Annals regulars Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin, of Day’s Edge Productions, have won another prize for their filmmaking. This time, it’s for their entry, The Runner, in the World Wildlife Fund video competition themed “Life. Nature. You. Make the Connection.”

Screen shot of Anolis carolinensis male from The Runner

Footage of Anolis sagrei and A. carolinensis in Miami plays during seconds 40-45.

If you’re here, you’ve caught on to the fact that we’ve moved to our new home at anoleannals.org.  We’re having a header photo contest to celebrate this move, but before introducing the contest I need to cover some important information about the move.

First, I want to say thanks to Melissa Woolley for making the move possible.  Melissa moved the entirety of past Annals – including posts, comments, categories, and tags – to a new server, so you can just keep on using the new blog the same way you did the old one.  Note that comments and posts on the new anoleannals.org site will not appear at the old anoleannals.wordpress.com, and vice versa.  To avoid confusion, the old blog will soon disappear entirely from view.  Melissa painstakingly created new accounts for all of our old users on the new system, but you might need to reset your password, which you can do here.  We’re sorry for any inconvenience this might cause and welcome any feedback about how we could further smooth the transition.  Temporary glitches aside, this move permits us to make some much needed improvements and expansions to the blog (we’ll introduce one such improvement very shortly!).  Those of you who routinely get to us by Googling “Anole Annals,” should use this opportunity to bookmark our new page!

OK, on to the photo contest!  We’re looking for new header images and need your help.  We’ll likely do a reader poll to pick a few winners among the entries received, but the precise format of the contest will depend upon the number of entries we get.  Winning photos will earn a place of honor among our set of rotating header images.  In order to be considered, an image must be precisely 1000 pixels wide by 288 pixels high.  We’ll credit you as photographer wherever possible, but ask that images not include any text or watermarks.  You can submit your images using our blog’s new ability to easily add images to a comment; just click the “Choose File” link beneath the comment box and navigate to your JPEG photo.  I can’t wait to see all of your amazing anole images!

We’ve decided to extend the deadline for the poetry competition one more week. We’ve had a number of good entries but would love some more!

Martha Muñoz’s photo of developing Anolis longitibialis embryos were selected as a “Short Sharp Science” feature. Congratulations, Martha!

When its not trying to kill off distinguished herpetologists, the Center for North American Herpetology’s (CNAH‘s) mailing list is a great way to keep abreast of all kinds of herp related news.  Today, the CNAH’s list called attention to the fact that the New York Public Library is selling reproductions of classic prints from Holbrook‘s North American Herpetology.   Included among Holbrook’s plates is a rendering of Anolius Carolinensis that would look excellent on any good anolologist’s wall!  The prints being offered by the NY Public Library appear to be from the second edition published in 1842.  I’m not sure if the same print appeared in the first edition, or even which volume the anole was originally in; Holbrook famously recalled and burned many copies of the first edition in a bonfire at his house due to problems with the plates and with the organization of species accounts.   It looks like an 8 x 10″ Anolius Carolinensis print will set you back around $35.  Alternatively, you could get a facsimile of the whole edition for $70 from the SSAR!

Ken Miyata photographed these anoles about 30 years ago. All we know is that they are from Colombia. Can anyone help?