Brown Anole Lizard (Anolis sagrei)
Near buildings or scittering around the ground for food
5 to 8 Years
Native to Cuba, the Bahamas, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Jamaica, the Swan Islands, the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, and the Caribbean coast of Guatemala and Honduras. The brown anole's introduction into the United States in the early 1970s has altered the behavior and negatively affected populations of the native Carolina anole (also known as the green anole), which have since generally been relegated to the treetops.