Editing Anolis (section)

== Behavior ==
As ectotherms, ''Anolis'' lizards must regulate their body temperature partly through behavioral changes and bask in the sunlight to gain enough heat to become fully active, but lizards cannot behaviorally warm themselves at night when temperatures drop. Because of this, cold tolerance evolves faster than heat tolerance in these lizards.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Muñoz|first1=Martha M.|author1-link=Martha M. Muñoz|last2=Stimola|first2=Maureen A.|last3=Algar|first3=Adam C.|last4=Conover|first4=Asa|last5=Rodriguez|first5=Anthony J.|last6=Landestoy|first6=Miguel A.|last7=Bakken|first7=George S.|last8=Losos|first8=Jonathan B.|date=2014-03-07|title=Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2433|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=281|issue=1778|pages=20132433|doi=10.1098/rspb.2013.2433|pmid=24430845|pmc=3906933|issn=0962-8452}}</ref> On the island of [[Hispaniola]], both high-altitude and low-altitude lizard populations exist, and the thermal conditions at high and low elevations differ significantly.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Muñoz|first1=Martha M.|author1-link=Martha M. Muñoz|last2=Losos|first2=Jonathan B.|date=January 2018|title=Thermoregulatory Behavior Simultaneously Promotes and Forestalls Evolution in a Tropical Lizard|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/694779|journal=The American Naturalist|volume=191|issue=1|pages=E15–E26|doi=10.1086/694779|pmid=29244559|s2cid=3918571|issn=0003-0147}}</ref> High-altitude lizards have shifted their ecological niche to boulder environments, where warming themselves is easier, and they show changes in the shape of limbs and skull that make them better adapted to these environments.

To escape dangers, species that evolved near water have adapted the ability to stay submerged for as long as 18 minutes.<ref>[https://eeb.utoronto.ca/2021/05/evolutionary-biologists-discover-mechanism-that-enables-lizards-to-breathe-underwater/ Evolutionary biologists discover mechanism that enables lizards to breathe underwater]</ref>