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Down by me we have mostly brow anoles. When I first moved here there were two big ones that had they’re territory One alongside the house who’d go from the vines to the AC, the other in the front to the right of the garage

 

The one by the garage was a stud, he was always ****ing. Called him stumpy because he dropped his tail. One day another stump tail showed up, just a tad bigger. Faced off one day on the walk, a lot of posturing and circling before they went at it. Got around thirteen minutes or so, the new guy one and took over the corner by the garage while stumpy hung out by my front door

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13 hours ago, 2GT said:

I saw this last weekend in Maryland. These lizards are called Skinks and they were battling over a female. This went non stop for about 20 minutes. I never saw this before, but when a second male showed up it got serious. 

 

We don’t have any cool lizards in NJ :blackeye:

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12 mins ago, bigfish4me said:

My uncles place in south Jersey is filthy with skinks, couple different kinds. 

 

11 mins ago, Scallywag said:

Yes we do. The pines are loaded with fence lizards. 

I should have been more clear - I don't have any cool lizards in NJ...apparently other people do :squid:

 

Fence lizards and skinks?!?!?! :mad: I've got newts and salamanders...and they are amphibians :blackeye:

 

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I have a blue tailed skink around the back deck that drives the dog nuts 

It can squeeze into cracks the dog can't get a tongue or tooth into.

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30 mins ago, TimS said:

 

I should have been more clear - I don't have any cool lizards in NJ...apparently other people do :squid:

 

Fence lizards and skinks?!?!?! :mad: I've got newts and salamanders...and they are amphibians :blackeye:

 

I have never seen a lizard in your area or mine. 

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14 mins ago, Scallywag said:

I have never seen a lizard in your area or mine. 

Me either...and I spent thousands of hours a kid flipping rocks, boards, shingles and logs - salamanders and newts....that's what we have locally...zero lizards. Plenty of snakes and turtles - zero lizards :(

 

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If you think that's something you should see cockroaches fight :eek:

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The weirdest thing I ever saw was lizards on Long Island. I grew up there. Never saw a one. Then I bought a house  in Bellport a  number of years ago. I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Eventually I got a close enough to see one. Apparently sometime in the early 80's a load of Italian wall lizards destined for a pet store fell off  the back of a truck near the LIRR. Now they're everywhere within a 1/4 mile of the track, from Queens to Riverhead.

 

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26 mins ago, Joe said:

The weirdest thing I ever saw was lizards on Long Island. I grew up there. Never saw a one. Then I bought a house  in Bellport a  number of years ago. I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Eventually I got a close enough to see one. Apparently sometime in the early 80's a load of Italian wall lizards destined for a pet store fell off  the back of a truck near the LIRR. Now they're everywhere within a 1/4 mile of the track, from Queens to Riverhead.

 

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That's like the monk parrots in Edgewater NJ. 

 

The lizards in NJ are native, to my knowledge. Ive seen plenty of them just not in Monmouth county. 

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