If they’re really everywhere, and it sounds like it since each kind of anole has divided up the habitat squarely, how are you supposed to get anything done outside? I’m pretty sure I would step out into the street and follow one after another all day.
I've been tempted to chase them all day! I actually got to see a couple of them having a fight on a tree trunk a few weeks ago, a brown and a green, and they had their dewlaps puffed out at each other. It was a pretty stunning sight, even though they are wee tiny. The funny thing is, just like everything else in New Orleans, they have their season. They hide out till it gets VERY warm, basically the start of hurricane season. And they pack it up and hide out when it starts to cool down, basically the tail end of hurricane season. So the anole-following temptation is only present half the year. : )
If they’re really everywhere, and it sounds like it since each kind of anole has divided up the habitat squarely, how are you supposed to get anything done outside? I’m pretty sure I would step out into the street and follow one after another all day.
I've been tempted to chase them all day! I actually got to see a couple of them having a fight on a tree trunk a few weeks ago, a brown and a green, and they had their dewlaps puffed out at each other. It was a pretty stunning sight, even though they are wee tiny. The funny thing is, just like everything else in New Orleans, they have their season. They hide out till it gets VERY warm, basically the start of hurricane season. And they pack it up and hide out when it starts to cool down, basically the tail end of hurricane season. So the anole-following temptation is only present half the year. : )