blue green anole

[Louie]

When i worked at a pet store the brown anoles would lay eggs in the enclosure and the adults would eat them when they managed to hatch.

Wow had no idea they even ate their young.

 

[CTU2fan]

Browns definitely seem more opportunistic, both in feeding and colonizing.

I wonder about hybridizing, I've never seen anything that looks like it could be A. sagrei x A. carolinensis...here I see greens, browns, and occasionally a nearly black, chunky, speckled anole with a shorter, wider head and flattened tail. Those are rare though, I think I've seen 3-4 since I've been here.

I wonder if anole courting, as visual as it is, prevents hybridizing? The dewlap shape and color is quite different in browns vs. greens, the females may not recognize the display. Just a guess.

 

[coura]

Browns definitely seem more opportunistic, both in feeding and colonizing.

I wonder about hybridizing, I've never seen anything that looks like it could be A. sagrei x A. carolinensis...here I see greens, browns, and occasionally a nearly black, chunky, speckled anole with a shorter, wider head and flattened tail. Those are rare though, I think I've seen 3-4 since I've been here.

I wonder if anole courting, as visual as it is, prevents hybridizing? The dewlap shape and color is quite different in browns vs. greens, the females may not recognize the display. Just a guess.

I think the hibrid in question may very likely be possible, after all knowing what we now know about herps, for example in turtles animals that diferenciated 40 million years from each other can still interbreed (ex: Caretta x Chelonia, Chelodina x Emydura,etc). But yes thouse courting rituals and dewlap displays are just there for that reason. Imagen how it must be on the browns native land with them living side by side with so many other anole taxa, having the means to avoid hibrids is very inportant, thouse only ocurr under unusual circunstances.

 

[coura]

hybridization can wait.
and i've have amazing success with establishment and feeding wild ones
and breeding

Thats better but even then avoid colecting wild ones, plennty of farm bred ones to go around without causing more damage to the populations.

 

[CTU2fan]

I think the hibrid in question may very likely be possible, after all knowing what we now know about herps, for example in turtles animals that diferenciated 40 million years from each other can still interbreed (ex: Caretta x Chelonia, Chelodina x Emydura,etc). But yes thouse courting rituals and dewlap displays are just there for that reason. Imagen how it must be on the browns native land with them living side by side with so many other anole taxa, having the means to avoid hibrids is very inportant, thouse only ocurr under unusual circunstances.

Oh I'm sure they could physically breed and produce viable eggs.

They also don't really occupy the same habitats; browns spend much more time on/near the ground while the greens are more dedicated tree dwellers. And as Louie has said the browns thrive on and around buildings much more than greens do, they are sort of the "day shift" while the house geckos are the "night shift".

 

[snakeguy101]

and i've often wondered if you could hybridize green anoles with the brown anoles

why would you want to? nothing good would really come of it...

 

[coura]

Oh I'm sure they could physically breed and produce viable eggs.

They also don't really occupy the same habitats; browns spend much more time on/near the ground while the greens are more dedicated tree dwellers. And as Louie has said the browns thrive on and around buildings much more than greens do, they are sort of the "day shift" while the house geckos are the "night shift".

That is true, maybe if there were no habitat destruction they could coexist in a relatively peacefull maner.

 

[jakerampage]

the hybridization is just for curiosity

 

[coura]

Cross breeding them is not a good idea, insted consentrate your eforts toards the greens or another rarer anole. Have you ever seen Anolis allisoni? Now thats a cool anole, its represented on the hobby, however you hardly ever see it. In a store here there are 2 males for sale but I gess find a female is a allmost impossible endeavor

 

[Intobigfish1818]

Very common in S. Fl ..see them almost everywhere their are bushes.