Two male festive anoles (Anolis sagrei) fighting in Texas. From netscape.net‘s Facebook page.
This is reminiscent of similar battles in Sitana, like the photo below. Of course, we know all about Sitana fights here on AA.
Liam Revell has developed a method, which he explains in Phytools.
Anolis etheridgei. Photo by Rick Stanley.
Three-and-a-half years ago, I wrote a post on the phylogenetic distribution of blue eyes in anoles. They pop up all over anole phylogeny and in species with diverse habitats and geography. The post attracted 32 comments.
At the time, I asked if anyone had a photo of the blue-eyed Anolis etheridgei. Photographer par excellence Rick Stanley quick obliged, but I never got around to posting his photo, so here it is.
But the bigger question is: what about those blue eyes? Why hasn’t anyone studied the phenomenon? If you’ve got a good photo of a blue-eyed anole, send it here!
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. But what if there’s an anole sleeping inside of it?
We anolologists (and herpetologists generally) are a devoted bunch, particularly when it comes to our field equipment. It is therefore very troubling to learn that an essential component of our field kit is being discontinued. Perhaps most chilling is the thought losing access to our beloved [1] [2] Cabela’s Panfish Poles. A recent series of tweets between AA stalwart James Stroud and Cabela’s customer service revealed noose poles are currently out of stock and may not return:
@Cabelas but the website won’t let me buy the IK-115800! Even though it says that you have them in stock (albeit limited)
— James T. Stroud (@jameststroud) April 21, 2017
@Cabelas nice! Thanks! So are there more I can order now or was that the last one in stock?
— James T. Stroud (@jameststroud) April 21, 2017
@jameststroud That was the last one we had available. -Melanie
— Cabela’s (@Cabelas) April 21, 2017
We have experienced the disappearance and return [1] [2] [3] of these poles before and, despite our best efforts, have not found a good alternative. With this essential tool at risk, I am taking up the effort to convince Cabela’s it is worthwhile to continue producing panfish poles. I would like to present them with the economic argument that many herpetologists use, and will continue to buy, this product. I created a Twitter poll below and will present the results to Cabela’s customer service in making our case. Please take a moment to share your thoughts using the poll and in the comments. Thanks!
Hey, herpetology community… Quick question.
Do you use (and would you continue to buy) @cabelas panfish poles for your fieldwork? Thanks!
— Anthony J Geneva (@AnthonyGeneva) April 25, 2017
Photo by Karen Cusick
Karen Cusick writes on Daffodil’s Photo Blog that she’s never seen anything like this, and neither have I.
Michele Johnson (top) and Manuel Leal (bottom). For more on the Leal lab’s march-related activities, check out the post on Chipojolab.
From the pages of Facebook. Specifically, from Paul Marcellini Photography (check out the beautiful photos on his website). Note that we previously featured another account of a nesting female hummingbird attacking an anole, in this case Anolis stratulus in the Virgin Islands.
here’s a close-up, from Marcellini’s FB page:
I stumbled onto an old video from a past trip that might interest some of you. Anolis vanzolinii, named after herpetology and samba master Paulo Vanzolini, is a poorly-known species from northern Ecuador. While this video is not the most exciting–it is only a video of one crawling on a bed–it does demonstrate almost chameleon-like qualities in its movement. On a trip where we caught quite a few Anolis proboscis, this species still stood out to me as the most interesting. Hope to see them again sometime!
Steve Arnold, snake biologist extraordinaire, has a secret love of anoles. Or at least he takes pictures of them on his travels. Here are two anoles from Pico Bonito National Park in northwestern Honduras. Anyone know what they are?
