Talk:Anolis carolinensis

message: There are several photographs of anoles in this article. They are good contributions, but I wonder if the photos could be organized in a better way? As it is now, it seems a bit cluttered/visually unappealing. Behavio (talk) 17:18, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, the page is cluttered. WP:GALLERY I will tag the page for cleanup and remove some of the redundant photos. Down time (talk) 17:01, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Cluttered?

message: I caught a lizard like this yesterday, the pictures are here in case I am wrong about the species: http://imagesofaustin.blogspot.com/.  But I noticed that it was brown at first and then after I caught it, it turned green.  I suspect that getting caught caused it stress so this experience is the exact opposite of what it says in this article.  I was wondering if someone could please cite that in general "happy" lizards turn green and "unhappy" ones turn brown.  I don't think it was happy to get caught by me. I will admit it is possible I ran into a special case, but I doubt it.  I guess I will come back in a day or two to delete this if no one has posted a citation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.227.222.209 (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not lizard specialist, but I would explain it that way: If a lizard experiences ongoing stress (e.g. because of inappropiate conditions) it doesn't turn green anymore. As far as I concern the loss of the changing ability is just one of many signs a lizard suffers stress. I a terrarium they change colour all the time, even when they are NOT in stress or not under a light spot. --Protostomia (talk) 14:18, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A happy lizard turns green?

message: Three sections of the page that I believe to be missing are interaction with humans and livestock/bites to humans, social behavior, and phylogeny. Since green anoles are often kept as pets, it would be helpful to include a section explaining possible disease transmission, agricultural impact, and human attacks. Social behavior would also be helpful to include as there was a brief mention that green anoles form loose clans which I believe is something that can be elaborated on. Lastly, seeing that the green anole is one of the first amniotes to have been sequenced, it would be interesting to see there be a further discussion of its phylogeny, genetics, and genomic research. 
Joshuachenwustl (talk) 07:08, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestions for addition 

message: I edited the description section since there was a lot of misguided information on how to tell the two sexes apart. BOTH sexes can exhibit a mid-dorsal stripe along the backbone, even though a lot of adult males will eventually lose this feature, there are still several who retain the stripe. And juvenile males still exhibit this stripe, so that should not be a factor to tell a male from a female apart. Dewlaps should not be an indicator as to whether or not the anole is male or female. BOTH sexes can have a dewlap, it is just that generally in adult specimins the males exhibit it more frequently and are generally larger and more colorful, and the dewlaps are often (but not always) smaller and less colorful in the females. Yes, females DO have dewlaps, as I have seen them display their dewlaps several times in my life, and I currently own 4 green carolina anoles of my own, and I especially see it in threat displays for the females. And head size and all that is only relevant in adult specimins. The most proper way to sex an anole is through the hemipenile bulges exhibited ONLY IN MATURE MALES as well as the ENLARGED POSTANAL SCALES located beneath the VENT of ONLY MALES of the species, and age for that is not a factor, so even juvenile males will exhibit this feature. DragonTU84 04:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, they have teeth alright...and surprisingly large too. On the biggest individuals the teeth can even draw blood. I'll fix the sentence when I come across it. Crimsonraptor (talk) 17:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description 

message: I editted some of the info. that I originally wrote in this section, as I know some of the wording and vocabulary got a little confusing. I also deleted somebody's comment that hatchling anoles feed off of the regurgitated food of their parents. This is true for BIRDS, NOT reptiles like green anoles!!!!! So please stop providing misinformation and confusing the reader, especially when I already stated that the female anole just buries the egg in soft compost and lets it to hatch and fend for itself...this totally just contradicts this already known fact and just confuses rather than helps the reader.
But anyways, most of the editting was just re-phrasing sentences and paragraphs so the reader can hopefully better understand the message I am trying to get across on anole breeding behaviors. DragonTU84 (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breeding/Mating 

message: In reptiles like green anoles, there lies layers of pigments called chromatophores, and for there to be an albino reptile all of the color layers must be missing, not just the melanophores. For instance, since the anole color spectrum is made up of cyanophores, melanophores and xanthrophores, ALL 3 HAVE TO BE LACKING for an "albino" specimin to be produced. The incidence is even RARER than the rare blue-phased anole I noted in the discussion. DragonTU84 (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coloration/Color Morphs 

message: What's with the "What a blue-phased green anole WOULD look like" picture?  Why don't we also edit the picture so users would know what a purple, plaid, or fuschia anole "WOULD" look like as well?  I propose removing the picture and letting someone that can capture a blue-phased green anole on film post an actual picture of one, rather than an edited picture.  kthx.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.153.139.9 (talk) 07:32, August 21, 2007 (UTC) 
: I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The image in question has been removed and a picture of a regular green anole has taken its place. Anybody who is able to capture a photograph of a true blue-phased anole, please feel free to replace my image with one of a blue-phased. DragonTU84 19:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo Question

message: There should probably be a section on the negative impacts that the brown Anole has had on the population of the green anole.  I believe   I Believe I will start one. Michael1115 (talk) 21:11, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brown anole 

message: The captions in the photo gallery referred to this species as both a Green Anole, A Carolina Anole, and a Green Carolina Anole.  As the title of the article is Carolina anole, I changed all the captions to that. Michael1115 (talk) 00:25, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read Common_names philiptdotcom (talk) 23:13, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo gallery 

message: There was a lot of extra info in distribution which didn't seem to fit, so I moved some to behavior and deleted a little that had to do with identification and didn't seem to have any where to go Michael1115 (talk) 00:47, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra info in Distribution 

message: I Removed two paragraphs in the reproduction area that seemed to be more instructional than encyclopedic. Michael1115 (talk) 13:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed some "how to" content 

message: Site uses material plagiarized from Kingsnake.com former anole website "Under the Leaves"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.168.180 (talk) 08:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "Anole World" site link 

message: Just a new-found discovery that might be of some importance...
I used to have a pair of these guys, and surprisingly the female was the much more aggressive of the two (and I mean it---you knew who we were talking about in our house when we mentioned "the terrorist"). Recently I talked to other anole owners from around New Jersey and got the same result. So it seems to me that, although all the experts still say the males are the feisty ones, the females rule the roost. This probably hasn't been accepted by the scientific community of course, so I won't put anything in yet. Any thoughts? Crimsonraptor (talk) 15:14, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anole aggressiveness 

message: Should "brown anole" be a subheading?  Why not "Threats [in native range]" instead (more general, more consistent w/ encyclopedic style)?
Also, refs need to be added (including to the additional range info I just added RE: Anolis sagrei in Hawaii [which should probably be better-incorporated into the text, or eliminated altogether if heading is changed to "Threats [in native range]").  The best/most authoritative ref for this will be the Hawaii Biological Survey (Bishop Museum) Occasional Papers series (which I'm just too lazy to look up right now).
23:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits need to be made to page 

message: Can we please change the main page title back to Green anole, instead of the misguided current "Carolina anole"? No one is fighting for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to be renamed "Virginia deer," so I don't see why this page has to be "Carolina anole." I tried moving it to "Green anole" but couldn't.  Biqboi (talk) 22:01, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree.  The term "Green anole" could be used for several members of the Dactyloidae family. The term American green anole would be better, though these anoles are not necessarily green.  The term Carolina anole, relates to the binomial name well, and is only used to refer to Anolis carolinensis.
The argument you used was an emotional WP:I just don't like it, which is not a valid reason to re-term an article.
The Soldier of Peace (talk) 20:16, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bringing up renaming again 

message: This poor lizard now has 8 common names... can we leave just the most accepted one or two (maybe just "green anole"?) in the lead and put the other ones below? Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 01:15, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eight common names 

message: Overall, the page has a fantastic start. There are however, three sections of the page that I believe to be missing and should be added. These are interaction with humans and livestock/bites to humans, social behavior, and phylogeny. Since green anoles are often kept as pets, it would be helpful to include a section explaining possible disease transmission, agricultural impact, and human attacks. Social behavior would also be helpful to include as there was a brief mention that green anoles form loose clans which I believe is something that can be elaborated on. Lastly, seeing that the green anole is one of the first amniotes to have been sequenced, it would be interesting to see there be a further discussion of its phylogeny, genetics, and genomic research. 
Joshuachenwustl (talk) 04:28, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion for adding sections