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I caught a Brown Anole on my porch


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#1 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 4 2016 - 3:08 PM

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Probably came from someones pet. Looks like its left back foot is hurt.

 

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#2 Offline Shaye - Posted April 4 2016 - 7:25 PM

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Poor guy, can he walk well though? Someone probably didn't want a "defective" pet.  :(  :/ He has a cool pattern that changes depending on how you look at it. Are you going to keep it, or give it away?


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#3 Offline gcsnelling - Posted April 4 2016 - 7:36 PM

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They are known to be established in southern California.



#4 Offline Shaye - Posted April 4 2016 - 7:53 PM

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Really? I've never seen them here... I'm gonna have to search more specifically to see these little guys out and about, they're pretty fun to watch.


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#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 4 2016 - 9:47 PM

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Poor guy, can he walk well though? Someone probably didn't want a "defective" pet.  :(  :/ He has a cool pattern that changes depending on how you look at it. Are you going to keep it, or give it away?

 

Yeah, I'm keeping it. It seems to be able to walk fine.

 

 

They are known to be established in southern California.

 

Yeah, I was reading about it, and it looks like there are some small areas here and there where they can be found now thanks to irresponsible pet owners. I think all the ones I read about were not even in the wilderness, but areas in the city. Not sure if it was here, but I thought I also read that some hitched rides on plants.



#6 Offline gcsnelling - Posted April 5 2016 - 4:13 AM

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Yes there are scattered breeding populations, mostly in populated residential areas.  I found them in Huntington Beach a few years ago.It is assumed they have reached the area primarily in ornamental plants.



#7 Offline Loops117 - Posted April 5 2016 - 7:12 AM

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Hitchhikers come in every shape and size, water and land.



#8 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted April 6 2016 - 3:06 PM

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Where are they normally found?



#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 6 2016 - 8:17 PM

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Cuba I think.



#10 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted April 6 2016 - 9:19 PM

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Oh how strange. It looks like it belongs in a desert not Cuba. :lol:



#11 Offline Michaelofvancouver - Posted April 10 2016 - 12:45 PM

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That's a nice looking anole!

Other than the back foot, I think it looks like it's in decent condition. I really enjoy keeping ants and a leopard gecko, since much of their diet overlaps.


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#12 Offline Roachant - Posted May 22 2016 - 12:57 PM

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They are everywhere in Florida. I could have caught hundreds in one day. How's it doing now?

#13 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 22 2016 - 2:24 PM

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It died shortly after I caught it.



#14 Offline Kingjay - Posted May 22 2016 - 4:30 PM

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It's probably died of shock.Or it was all ready sick when you got it.Sorry for your lost drew

R.I.P brown anole

#15 Offline Loops117 - Posted May 23 2016 - 5:31 AM

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It died shortly after I caught it.

Did you capitalize on the situation and give the corpse to a colony?



#16 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 23 2016 - 6:07 AM

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Yeah, I fed it to my Crematogaster colony.



#17 Offline Loops117 - Posted May 23 2016 - 6:12 AM

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That is absolutely awesome. I hope to eventually have a colony that can process something that large. Did you get a video at all? That would be cool to see.



#18 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 23 2016 - 6:15 AM

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No. They ate it all in like a day or two.



#19 Offline Loops117 - Posted May 23 2016 - 6:28 AM

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Wow, well that is really cool though. Good to know that it didn't go to waste. 



#20 Offline bryancurtis8 - Posted June 2 2016 - 4:29 AM

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That is cool.

In Puerto Rico there is an outstanding number of anole species. They are literally everywhere.

I remember when I was just a kid that we all would go to the woods to find them and the big males controlled whole trees and would fight any other that would be close.

We would see them fight and gave names to those big males that never lost. They where along the lines of Rex, Dragon, Raptor, etc.

Ahh the good old times :)




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