Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Brown Anole

Anolis sagrei

Habitat:

Sitting in the sun on a rock in the gardens of the Honolulu zoo. Need to research what this is and what it is doing! Have seen other lizards do this but never checked it out. Mating display? territorial display? You're getting too close to me display? So much that I don't know about lizards!

Notes:

So I am learning about lizards of Hawaii now. Need to find out how many introduced lizards there are there!

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

15 Comments

KathleenMcEachern
KathleenMcEachern 10 years ago

Thanks, Sachin!

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 10 years ago

Nice capture,

KathleenMcEachern
KathleenMcEachern 10 years ago

Thanks Jason!

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

Cute!

KathleenMcEachern
KathleenMcEachern 10 years ago

Thanks Jemma and Mona! I really enjoyed watching him.

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 10 years ago

awesome..

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

spectacular!

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 10 years ago

@ bugadrienne I have seen the Green Anole in Hawaii too, but there are definitely more Browns visible.

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 10 years ago

Hi Ashley! thanks for your info, but in this case it is not correct. I am using a 70 - 300 mm lens here and he is not displaying at me. Probably someone or thing closer to him right then.

bugadrienne
bugadrienne 10 years ago

I watch them extend the dewlap for all types of communication. It is impressive when they extend a crest from the head to the tail when they prepare to fight, also showing their fighting colors. They look like different lizards then. It is funny how I often see that one chooses light and one chooses dark when they do that. Like the Black Knight and the White Knight preparing for battle.

Interesting as their behaviors are, they have pretty much outcompeted Anolis carolinensis in my area. I miss the greenies. :(

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

They extend their dewlap for courtship and for territorial reasons. In this case, he was probably threatened by you and was extending it to tell you that it was his territory.

KrantiAzad
KrantiAzad 10 years ago

nice !!

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 10 years ago

Okay I found this video of a Brown Anole displaying to a female, so it seems for sure a courtship behaviour and may be for other things as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UremFE5pR...

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 10 years ago

Thanks bugadrienne. I should have recognized this. It is introduced, highly invasive and changing the native populations of areas where it lives. I see that the neck display is a dewlap. Do you know when and why it extends this dewlap?

bugadrienne
bugadrienne 10 years ago

Looks like Anolis sagrei.

KathleenMcEachern
Spotted by
KathleenMcEachern

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Spotted on Mar 18, 2013
Submitted on Apr 7, 2013

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Anolis Anolis Anolis Anolis lizard

Nearby Spottings

Spotting plumeria tree rainbow shower tree. Ti, Tiplant, Ti Plant, Ki, Hawaiian Good Luck Plant

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team