Anoles Podcast: Extras

Images

Photo Credits: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University President and Fellows of Harvard College

Video

Visit Justin Jenningsen's website to learn more about sexual selection and sexual signals in Anolis lizards and to watch a video of Anoles vocalizing a signal. 

Facts

Anoles come in a remarkable variety of colors and forms, each with its special ecological niche. The media gallery on EOL.org has over one thousand items, with more being added every day. We’ve put together a gallery of some of our favorites:

	The blue anole, Anolis gorgonae, is the only blue member of the genus. This insect-eater is found only on the tiny island of Gorgonoa, off the Pacific Coast of Colombia.
	The Cuban brown anole, Anolis sagrei, has coloring that camouglages it well against the tree bark where it spends a lot of its time, feeding on invertebrates such as insects, spiders, and worms. It will also eat hatchlings of the green anole, if it can get them.
	Anolis carolinensis, or the green anole, is the only anole native to North America, where it’s a popular pet. Because it can change its color to match its background, it’s also known the American chameleon. This species is also much-studied in the lab, where scientists are trying to decode the anoles’ complex signals of head-bobbing and dewlap-flashing.

Participate

Did you have an image of a lizard you have seen? You can upload your images to the EOL Group Flickr Group. Instructions for posting images can be found here.

EOL Fellows

The EOL Rubenstein Fellows program supports the research of a diverse group of scientists who are committed to online collaboration and outreach. Fellows receive partial funding for up to one year to translate biodiversity research, databases, and media into rich, online resources through the Encyclopedia of Life. The Fellows program is made possible through a generous donation by David M. Rubenstein to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.