Tails of the City: Tail Autotomy in Anolis cristatellus

Kirsten Tyler, a (recently graduated) undergraduate from UMass Boston, has spent the past few months working to better understand patterns of tail autotomy in urban populations of Anolis cristatellus (along with me and Liam Revell). We wanted to know if tail autotomy frequency differed between the urban and natural sites I have sampled over the past 3 … Continue reading →

Digital X-Ray Demo

We received our portable digital xray system today!  It all packs up into a portable trunk weighing a mere 75 lbs and the images are captured digitally rather than with xray film.  I’ll be using this for my research this summer.  We tested it out on an anesthetized anole (pic below).  The xray system will … Continue reading →