Battle For Breeding Rites by JeffeeArt4u
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Anolis Carolinensis Lizards during a battle for breeding rites of an area during mating season.
Matting season can begin early as April and last through late September. During this time is when you will see them do their rituals of bobbing, displaying dewlaps during courtship.
Fighting Anole do not fight until death, just to keep the other males away from their territory.
April at Gourley Garden in TN. Lizards in a Japanese Maple

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if you like what you see. Would like a garden book published of all my garden images and documentations about my work.I would welcome a few articles published about my work, just for free marketing, and information to help magazines, and people to learn. “Smoky Mountains, Gourley Garden, Lizards, Art” along with written information that you find here. My garden ajoins the Foothills Parkway land of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Internatonal Biosphere Reserve
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anole fight, matting territory, anolis carolinensis, battle, gourley garden

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  • Trish Meyer
    Trish Meyerover 1 year ago


    28 January 2011 … one image a day

  • I have captured several Anolis mating this year, perhaps I will be seeing the young soon. I want to do a book.

    – JeffeeArt4u

  • Phillip M. Burrow
    Phillip M. Burrowabout 1 year ago

    Great shot, very interesting!

  • Glad you liked the shot of the Anole in Battle For Breeding Rites, it has been the only one that I have witnessed that they stayed together for a few seconds, most of the time one will back away before a fight. Observing them and photographing them in my garden is rewarding, and I probably have thousands of pictgures of them. Thanks for visiting my site, I haven’t been on it lately much, because I haven’t been able to put a lot of new stuff on it. But I do visit it occassionally. Also, trying to put together a book. Thanks Jeffee

    – JeffeeArt4u

  • Carol Barona
    Carol Barona8 months ago

    great capture..