Green Anole
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Green Anole
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Side view of a green anole on a saw palmetto frond. Photographed along the Buncombe Hill Trail in Tiger Bay State Forest.
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Go Take A Hike Photography Group
Green anoles may vary their body color from green to brown depending upon their surroundings, mood, temperature or health, but they are not chameleons, as they are sometimes called.
Found in various habitats throughout Florida and the southeastern coastal plain from Oklahoma and Texas to North Carolina. Anolis carolinensis used to be the most common anole in Florida, however the brown anole is now more frequent in some areas, most noticeably in urban and suburban habitats of the central and southern peninsula.
Green anoles are slender, seven to eight inches long with a long wedge-shaped snout and long thin tail. Body is white below and the males have a pink dew lap that can be extended from below the throat to signal adversaries and potential mates. Of the 7 or 8 species of Anoles found in Florida, the green anole is the only undisputed native.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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November 23rd, 2018
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