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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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CubanFEATURE ARTICLES Green Anole, Gray . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: 1840 (:On the Road to Understanding the Ecology andDactyloidae): Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Precopulatory Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: BehaviorA Hypothetical Excursion ...... Interrupted by AnotherRobert W. Henderson Male 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned in Central and Western TexasLuis ...... F. de Armas Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in ...... P.O. Box 4327, SanBrian Antonio J. Camposano, de los Baños,Kenneth ArtemisaL. Krysko, Kevin38100, M. CubaEnge, Ellen([email protected]) M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 he Cuban Green. More AnoleThan Mammals (Anolis ...... porcatus Gray 1840), but without fighting...... However, the behavior 223 of the attacker . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 Tone of the most abundant and widely distributed liz- appeared to be that of a resident male. ards in the CubanHUSBANDRY Archipelago (Rodriguez-Schettino 1999; In the episode described by Parmerlee et al. (1992), the Rodriguez-Schettino. Captive et Care al. of 2013),the Central Nettedalso Dragonhas ...... been intro- males were less aggressive Shannon and Plummerthe behavior 226 of the intruder duced into the DominicanPROFILE Republic, Florida, and Curaçao clearly differed from that described herein. In the descrip- (Henderson and Powell. Kraig Adler: 2009; A Lifetime Stuart Promoting et al. Herpetology 2012)...... This spe- tion of interrupted copulation Michael of L. Tregliaa pair 234of Cuban Blue Anoles cies is frequently encountered on buildings and in gardens (Anolis allisoni), Borroto-Páez and Reyes Pérez (2019) stated and parks (PowellCOMMENTARY and Henderson 2008). Its reproduction that the intruder “approached the copulating pair, moving in . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 in Province has been described as both continuous intervals interrupted by pauses of several seconds” and then and cyclical by BOOKRodriguez REVIEW (1982) and Sanz et al. (2005), “attacked and bit the copulating male twice.” The female’s respectively. Parmerlee. Threatened et al. Amphibians(1992) described of the World editedinterruption by S.N. Stuart, of M. Hoffmann,behavior J.S. described Chanson, N.A. herein Cox, also differed from that described copulation by a largerR. male Berridge, in P. anRamani, introduced and B.E. Young population ...... in in the other two incidents inRobert that Powell she 243 did not escape, but the Dominican Republic,CONSERVATION but a RESEARCHsimilar event REPORTS: has not Summaries been of Publishedremained Conservation in placeResearch and Reports she ...... used her tail 245to grasp the substrate. documented in . NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 At 1602 h onNEWBRIEFS 4 April 2021 ...... in the backyard of a resi- ...... Acknowledgement 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 dence in San Antonio FOCUS de ONlos CONSERVATIONBaños, : A Province, Project You CanCuba Support ...... Manuel Iturriaga (Institute of Ecology 252 and Systematics, (22.89347°N, 82.50978°W; elev. 75 m asl), while I was Havana) provided some references and reviewed an earlier taking a video of precopulatory behavior of Cuban Green draft of this manuscript. Anoles 2.1 m above the ground on the trunk of a Barbados Cherry (Malpighia punicifolia) (Fig.Front 1A), Cover. a second Shannon Plummer.male (SVL Back Cover. Michael KernLiterature Cited ~65 mm) suddenly approached theTotat pair et velleseque from audanta position mo no Borroto-Páez,Totat et velleseque R. and audant D. Reyes mo Pérez 2019. Cuban Blue Anole (Anolis allisoni) more than 2 m higher on the treeestibus and, inveliquo without velique rerchil prelude, estibuscopulation inveliquo interrupted velique rerchil by another male. Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 115–116. erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,Henderson, quos R.W. accullabo. and R. Powell. Ilibus 2009. Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and attacked the other male (Figs. 1C–D).aut dolor Afterapicto invere approximately pe dolum aut dolorAmphibians apicto invere. University pe dolum Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 3 sec, the two males (which werefugiatis of comparable maionsequat eumque size) disen- Parmerlee,fugiatis J.S.,maionsequat Jr., R. Powell, eumque D.D. Smith, and A. Lathrop. 1992. Unusual behav- gaged, after which the intruder twicemoditia displayederere nonsedis hisma sectiatur dewlap moditiaior erere in the nonsedis Cuban maGreen sectia Anole,- Anolis porcatus (Sauria: Polychridae). Bulletin ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ofma the derrovitae Chicago Herpetologicalvoluptam, as Society 27: 118. and gaped (Fig. 1E). He immediatelyaccullabo. attacked again and Powell, R. and R.W. Henderson. 2008. Urban herpetology in the West Indies, pp. bit the other male (Figs. 1F–G), which backed down and 87–102. In: In: J.C. Mitchell, R.E. Jung Brown, and B. Bartholomew (eds.), escaped, while the female moved toward the opposite side Urban Herpetology. Herpetological Conservation, volume 3, Society for the of the trunk (Fig. 1G). The intruder then left quickly (Fig. Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Rodríguez, M.E. 1982. Ciclo reproductivo de Anolis porcatus (Gray, 1840) y Anolis 1H), while the agitated female remained in place. The dura- allisoni (Barbour, 1928) de Cuba. Unpublished Diploma Thesis, Faculty of tion of the fight was only 10 sec. During the entire sequence, Biology, Havana University, Havana, Cuba. the female’s tail was tightly coiled around a part of the trunk Rodriguez Schettino, L. 1999. The Iguanid of Cuba. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. (Figs. 1A–F, arrows). Rodríguez Schettino, L., C.A. Mancina, and V. Rivalta. 2013. Reptiles of I could not determine if the attacking male was defend- Cuba: Checklist and geographic distributions. Smithsonian Herpetological ing his territory, because the territories of three or four adult Information Service 144: 1–96. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.23317515.144.1. males include this tree (4.40 m height x 3.2 m diameter) Sanz, A., M.C. Uribe, and L.J. Guillette, J.R. 2005. Seasonal gametogenic cycles in a Cuban tropical lizard, Anolis porcatus. Journal of Herpetology 39: 443–454. and I have occasionally observed disputes involving displays https://doi.org/10.1670/160-03A.1.

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Fig. 1. Precopulatory behavior of a male Cuban Green Anole (Anolis porcatus) interrupted by another male in an urban backyard at San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa Province, Cuba. During the prelude to mating (A) another male approaches (B) and immediately attacks the first male (C–D); after 3 sec, the males disengage and display aggressive behavior (E); subsequently, the intruder attacks again (F), the first male escapes, and the female moves to the opposite side of the trunk (G) before the intruder leaves (H) and the female remains. The entire sequence took 10 sec. Arrows in A–F indicate the loca- tion of the female’s tail coiled around a part of the trunk. In H, the intruder male is circled. Photographs are from a 48-minute video taken by the author.

Stuart, Y.E., M.A. Landestoy, D.L. Mahler, D. Scantlebury, A.J. Geneva, P.S. Van Cuban Green Anole (Anolis porcatus) in the Dominican Republic. Reptiles & Middlesworth, and R.E. Glor. 2012. New introduced populations of the Amphibians 19: 71–75.

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