Cold-Blooded Cuba: An Awesome Video Starring Anolis LIzards

(Before It's News)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuqhUd6vHcA

This fabulous video documents the evolutionary diversity of anoles and Eleutherodactylus frogs on Cuba. All of your favorites are here: swimming vermiculatus, chipojos (Chamaeleolis), a diversity of dewlapping delights (mestrei! allogus!), even a brief glimpse of a bartschi. The Irish-accented narration is quite good–and set to a lovely soundtrack–explaining in mostly accurate terms how anoles and frogs colonized and diversified in Cuba. Hats off to producer Tom Greenhalgh!

Astute AA readers may remember that we featured another video on Cuban anoles recently, as well as the splendid work in Miami by Day’s Edge Production. Sounds like it’s time for an anole film festival (a la the insect video contest just reported in the New York Times)!  Plenty of islands still available for you aspiring documentarians.

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