Cuban Brown Anole

• Its arrival on some Florida islets forced the native green anole up into the high branches, and in only fifteen years and twenty generations the pads on its toes grew larger to grip thin branches better: one of the fastest cases of observed evolution documented in a vertebrate.
• The Caribbean anoles are the textbook example of adaptive radiation: on each large island the same ecological types evolved independently, with trunk, twig and ground forms almost identical from island to island.
• It lays a single egg at a time, but does so every few days throughout the season, a strategy that lets it colonise any new place quickly.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Low trunks, scrub, gardens and urban areas of Cuba, the Bahamas and regions where it has been introduced

Sexual maturity

9 months

Gestation / incubation

35 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

1 egg

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_sagrei