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[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha! Amazing! He was in the lower tropics by a waterfall. They're actually opening up Edens around the world!!

https://www.edenproject.com/new-edens

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh cool! England is the closest to me at the moment, though :p

Found some sources that claim the species is Hemidactylus mabouia and that they were introduced on purpose for pest control. That is not unlikely, but I can't an official document or statement from The Eden Project describing the species that they introduced on purpose!

https://twitter.com/Cercopithecid10/status/1524694286813605888

https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/green-anole-10-july-2018-at-the-eden-project.406325/

(And, sorry for all of these Twitter links that are now hardly accessible without an account ๐Ÿ˜  )

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know there is a display with plastic replicas of the domes denziens. I'll have to take a closer look next time as it's a local favourite spot. :) The articles I was poking around at were very generalist and you dug up way more than me.

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahaha, please report back when you do! ๐Ÿ˜œ