Brown Anole ( One Reptile Molting )

Description:

Around 11:30 a.m. in the morning, I looked out of the right front window, and I spotted one reptile, resting on one of the outside windows of my house. I got my camera, and I opened up the front door, and I quietly moved as close as I could to this reptile, without this reptile getting scared, and running into the bushes. As I got closer to this reptile, I noticed some white areas on its body. As I looked at my photos that I took of this reptile, on my computer, I saw that this reptile, was shedding its skin. Shedding: Brown anoles molt in small pieces, unlike some other reptiles, which molt in one large piece. Anoles may consume the molted skin, to replenish supplies of calcium.

Habitat:

Coastal upland, Estuarine community, Exotic plant community, Barren land, Low density suburban development, Areas peripheral to core urban areas, And small towns, Agriculture habitat, Recently disturbed, early successional community, Pine Rockland, Flatwoods, and Xeric Uplands.

Notes:

Brown anoles, feed on small Arthropods, such as crickets, moths, ants, grasshoppers, cockroaches, mealworms, spiders, and waxworms. They may also eat other lizards, such as skinks and the green anole, lizard eggs, and there own molted skin and detached tails. If near water, they eat aquatic Arthropods, or small fish-nearly anything that will fit in there mouths. Predators include: rats, snakes, birds, and many larger animals, such as cats. Average lifespan of the brown anole, is 3 to 4 years.