Bill The Lizard is completely whistle trained. With just a couple of whistles, he came running across the yard from the neighbor's wall to get his morning mealworms. Then when I ran out, he started climbing all over me.
Harriet The Lizard and I already had our morning coffee and mealworm time together.

#HarrietTheLizard #BillTheLizard #Lizard #Herps #sceloporus

Contrary to expectations based on #phylogeography (topleft, blue boxes) or habitat similarity (red boxes), undisturbed communicative behavior was more similar between the more distant S. consobrinus and S. u. undulatus, than between S. u. hyacinthinus and either of those two, suggesting that behavioral plasticity and local adaptation to different selective pressures in each population underlie interpopulation variation in behavior.

Read in full: https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13402

#Sceloporus #newpaper

Now available #OpenAccess in #Ethology, @EthoGes, our latest #NewPaper examines behavioral activity and signal use across three closely related populations of the
#Sceloporus undulatus species complex from diverse habitats across the United States to test the relative roles of habitat and phylogeography in shaping undisturbed communicative behavior.

Congrats to MSc Jennifer Flores on her first-authored paper exploring habitat occupancy of #Sceloporus lizards in central Mexico! Out now in #Herpetologica #NewPaper #lizards
Link: https://meridian.allenpress.com/herpetologica/article-abstract/doi/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-22-00016/490364/Specific-Habitat-Elements-Refuges-and-Leaf-Litter?redirectedFrom=fulltext

#Lizards in fire-prone ecosystems not only detect the #fires by smell it (https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab010), they can also hear it!

*Lizards' response to the sound of fire is modified by fire history*
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.12.002 (#OA) in Animal Behaviour by Álvarez-Ruiz et al. (#CIDE #CSIC), https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2023/01/09/lizards-hear-wildfires/

Fence lizard, #Sceloporus occidentalis, 2018 #WoolseyFire

#AnimalBehavior #fireecology #lizard @wildfirescience #openaccess

Thrilled to share our new article "Temperate Zone Isolation by Climate: An Extension of Janzen’s 1967 Hypothesis," in The American Naturalist https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722558 #IsolationByEnvironment #IsolationByClimate #PopulationGenetics #Janzen1967 #Sceloporus #occidentalis #Phylogenetics

@felicity_muth Check out "Every Word Was Once An Animal" https://www.carlabengtson.com/every-word-was-once-an-animal/ a collaboration between my former mentor, Dr Emilia Martins at #ASU - https://martins.lab.asu.edu/ and UO art Professor Carla Bengston. It has produced #art exhibitions, music, dances and even a perfume! inspired by the science behind #Sceloporus #lizards communication 🦎