WordPress just sent me some fun blog stats and I thought I’d share a few here with you. Reading them has made me pretty excited about keeping this blog going in preparation for next summer’s field season, so thank you for reading and let me know in the comments what you like or want more … More 2013 Year In Review
I recently wrote a short photo essay for Sage Magazine, Yale School of Forestry’s student-run magazine. Check it out here.
Many lizard species are known to bolster their diet with vegetation. The practice is particularly common among species that live on islands, given how scarce food resources often are. It was a bit surprising then that Podarcis erhardii, a lizard found plentifully all through the small aegean islands, hadn’t been observed eating plants. This summer, while … More Lizards eating an orange?!
So I’ve posted quite a few pictures of Podarcis erhardii but I haven’t shared any videos yet of the lizard actually in action out in the wild. Here are two I took out in the field this summer. Both videos are just lizards cruising around looking for food or basking in the sun, but hopefully they’ll … More A few lizard videos
Here’s a quick time-lapse video I made of the Blue Star Ferry docking, unloading, and reloading from Paros. Enjoy! It could use some music… let me know if you have any suggestions.
As per normal, the field season in Greece finished at a sprint and I fell (way) behind on keeping up with the stories. Sorry! I’m going to back-date a few posts to get you all up to speed. All in all, the summer was a great success – I collected nearly all the data I … More Greece Wrap-up
Iraklia, one of the islands in the small cyclades just south of Naxos, was my final small island of the summer. Again, the goal was to just grab a bunch of lizards, quick as possible, measure them, release them and get back home asap. Luckily Iraklia is a much shorter ferry ride than Amorgos. We … More Iraklia
As I’ve mentioned before, one of my primary research interests is how these lizards change in different contexts. So far I’ve measured a whole lot of morphological traits like limb length and head width on lizards from islands all over the cyclades. I’ve also measured a whole-organism performance trait, namely bite force, which relies on … More Lizard sprint speed
As is always the case, those last 2.5 weeks in the field flew by and I was so busy with everything else the blog fell off the radar. I’ve lots of cool pictures to share and stories to tell though so over the next few weeks I’ll be back-filling the blog to fill you in. … More Long overdue updates
One of many these days… These guys were headed for the sprint speed course. More on that next!
Colin Donihue 