Meet the Urban Lizards of Florida! 

Floridian here, I love green anoles and I feed them leftover crickets, I think we’ve made a bond.

I live in Florida so I see these little things alllllllll the time

Love this! I would love to just watch you travel the world and talk about native species. Also, congrats on the sponsorship! 😊

when she said "assert his dominance" i just imagined the lizard standing up and t posing

Floridian here- There's a brown anole somewhere in my house and no one knows where help

Florida is like the reptile paradise of the USA lol.

I live in Florida, have for 7-8 years. I’ve seen North American Curly Tails, Mediterranean House Geckos, Both Brown Anoles, Cuban Knight Anoles, Green Anoles, Green Iguanas, Corn Snakes, Garter Snakes, Southern Black Racers, Water Moccasins, Red Eared Sliders, Map Turtles, Painted Turtles, Softshell Turtles, And American Alligators, but I’ve never seen a 5 Lined Skink, or any skink in general in my life. Hmm.

Man I'm so glad you talked at such length about the Brown Anole and that it's invasive as heck. AND that it's taking food and habitat from the Green Anoles. I live in Orlando so as soon as I saw your video about Florida lizards I was like SHE BETTER TALK ABOUT THOSE DANG BROWN ANOLES. But it is really interesting how quickly green anoles are evolving to combat the habitat theft. I have a lot of feelings about our Florida Anoles

Love you Emily! I started watching your videos to tackle my fear of snakes!! I got hooked and I look forward to every new video. I live in Australia and wish I could go to one of your expos! We don’t have many snakes lovers here because our snakes tend to kill a lot of people. Lol

I live in Florida, these little bois are everywhere. Just last night a lizzer lept onto my hand in the dark, scared the everliving shit out of me, lol

Ok, what's up with the pickle? Floating In the background around 5:58 😅

Great video! My favorite lizards in Florida are six lined racer runners. Them speedy bois is fast lol

Not first EDIT: Also congrats on the sponsorship!

I'm here at 1:00 am in Scotland 😅 stayed up just to watch this . You are my inspiration to follow my dream to become a zoologist . I wrote a full paragraph about what you do and how that was my Inspiration. Lots of love from Alanna in Scotland ! 💞

Oh it's so awesome you're in Florida! I love the small lizards around here and I'm fascinated because some of these species I've never seen!

I like to catch these guys in my backyard and keep them for 1-2 days so I can draw them and document them, I did this before I even knew what they were called and I used to name them myself, and my favorite two were "Blue Tailed Toothless" and "Green Bastards" 😂😂😂

OMG! I used to see those in my yard all the time! I lived in Florida when I was younger and I still visit family there each summer. I love catching them and then letting them go again.

Are skinks the reason that racing stripes are what the are ? Also could we rename them Nyoooooooms ?

I'm so glad you're covering the small reptiles of Florida, Floridian here. Love the green anoles. I love obsessing over them when they are on the screen door haha

I LOVE those skinks! They're so pretty. I like to go "herping" in my yard with my toddler and we find those hiding out in our shed. So cute!

Couldn’t the Brown Anole just T-Pose to assert his dominance? Why evolve when you can T-Pose?

You are the best !!! You are the most informative person I have ever seen all the information is completely accurate

I was born and raised in South FL and my Mom found some small jelly bean sized eggs while gardening. We put them in a screen covered shoe box with some dirt & placed them under a light... about a week later, they hatched into the cutest tiny little blue tailed skinks!!! 💖💖💖

Love your channel! Glad you're growing! 👏

I love your channel! I had gone out earlier this year and got 3 adopted hognoses :) I used your videos to evaporate my fear of holding them and now they are tame as puppies :) Thanks Snake Discovery!

Hey Ive been watching your channel for about a year now and very educational keep up the good work

Aaah, so happy to see this! I live in Florida and have fallen in love with the anoles. A brown anole (Elend) was my first rescue and reignited my love for reptiles. Now I'm starting up a small reptile rescue! They really are underrated, they're very smart, a bit of food and a specific sound and you can have a pack ready to visit you at a moment's notice. I'm glad to see that they're becoming less common in pet shops, they're amazing pets but definitely need more care than what's prescribed. Hope you enjoyed your visit to Florida!

Floridian here! I have 'pet' green anoles on my lanai. I give them bugs n they eat any bugs that get into the lanai. Have watched them successfully fend off brown anoles from his territory. Awesome to watch them. Thank you for the video! Love going through these older videos

I live in florida, and i catch one of the first lizards you saw almost every day!

They didn't find any house geckos. Me looking at my window: "Uh, there's one right there." (I live in Tampa Bay, Florida)

I'm so glad I found this channel! You are helping me get over my fear of snakes! I love for you to do some crested gecko videos! I just recently got one and I love it!

I live in Californa. I see western fence lizards and sometimes alligator lizards. Everyday I check the temp of it is warm for lizards to be basking and look on my fence, almost everytime I see 1 or 2 western fence lizards just basking on my fence. They are Sooooo cute!

“Don’t get out I don’t want to have to catch you again” The anole: *”that’s the point”*

I got those in my backyard 🤣 Orlando is cool I guess (that’s where I live)

I love seeing lizards in nature. It's amazing how quickly some of them can adapt. Another awesome video.

Your videos never fail to make me smile :)

I went to Florida and caught a whole bunch of lizards they bite alot

My garage has had a colony of Mediterranean Geckos as long as I can remember. We call them leopard geckos lol.

Yes been waiting for the new upload!!!🐍🦎🐢

I'm a sucker for three-legged animals, so I naturally fell in love with that five lined skink. He is georgeous.

You guys should collabe with Kamp Kennan and Crocodile Kyle. Maybe bring Rex to their sanctuary to visit all of the crocodiles and alligators there!

Omg you’re in Orlando?!! I live there

Thanks for helping me of these lizards since I’m from Australia and I only have photos that I took of them. When I went to Orlando we stayed in this hotel and outside there were hundreds maybe even thousands of brown anoles there with a few skinks as well.

Love seeing them in my day to day! Also love the MN Wild shirt since I’m originally a Minnesotan lol

Awwwww so cute!!!! I want a lizard 🦎! I wish my mom let me!

I was wondering if anoles changed color.i live in Texas and I sometimes see them.during the warmer months like summer,I see green anoles.in the fall and winter I only see brown anoles

I love this channel I even set up my own terrariums in 1 I have 2 frogs and a few minnows and tadpoles

I grew up in Orlando! Thanks for sharing some info about the local lizards.

I LIVE IN OSTEEN OMG OMG OMG OMG ONLY 1 OUR AWAY HOW DID I NOT SEE YOU I LOVE YOU SO MUCH UR MY ROLE MODEL FOR LIKE IM ONLY 12 BUT I WANT TO FROW UP JUST LIKE YOU TO TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT THESE ANIMAL

Cool. To a scale to 0-10 how much do you like lizards. I love them but my mom wants me to kill any that comes in the house

I love all the lizards, snakes, and frogs here in florida. They are all great. I have 100s of brown anoles and like 8 jesus lizards/ basilisks in my backyard.

Omg when you pulled on his neck flap I lost my mind 😂😂 that was crazyyyyyyyyyyy he just let you too that was so cool! I love this video! Can you do more local wildlife stuff when you travel please?

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Emily!!! So, I had the best experience the other day, I had the amazing opportunity to teach my little niece about an American toad frog we found in the garden. She’s two and probably understood nothing but she loves spending the time watching him.

I've lived in Florida my whole life. Never put much thought into these extremely common lizards until I got older Caught a brown anole many years ago back when I was a kid. Lizard was young. Lasted several years in captivity. Even grew comfortable around humans. Was nice seeing such a common thing in the spotlight. Almost brings a sense of satisfaction due to the familiarity, for what ever reason.

Emily! You guys just made me so homesick-- I'm missing Orlando and Tampa so badly, and this was such a blast from the past for me. A lot of my childhood was spent looking for some of the reptiles you found in this video!

On my vacation there, we had a whole community of anoles always sticking to the fence. I love them.

Hi Emily and Ed, thanks for your time and effort and videos. Awesome and amazing. Diane from Southampton UK

I love these types of videos so much!!

I also live in Florida and was very excited when I saw this video. I'm very happy you covered these! I used to catch these lizards all the time.

Where i live in florida we have the african rainbow lizard(redhead agama) and curly tail lizards. They only started showing up within the last 5 years or so and now they are EVERYWHERE. To see a brown anole is almost rare now but to see a green anole is something truly special .

Rlly nice I love your channel wow snakes and lizards are rlly cool and pretty thank you for making me happy And the way you love animals thank you 😜 for making my day

I love it! And here we are with snow just south of us. Not ideal for lizards around here but I love them! Thanks for showing off some little guys!

Floridian here- my yard is a reptile and amphibian haven. I see Cuban/brown anoles daily, green anoles every so often, House geckos every evening and huge frogs and toads at night. Any given summer day there’s hundreds of tadpoles in various water features around my house, leapord frogs, tree frogs, Cuban tree frogs, bufo toads. We have a few friendly ring neck snakes and a garter, and I think a black racer. This is all in my yard.

When we lived in NC we had a pair of green anoles that were our "porch lizards." My husband would pick black army fly larvae out of our compost with tongs to offer to them. It worked! The female was the more skittish of the two but also the more opportunistic feeder. By the end of the summer she would come investigate whenever he came outside and would eat out of his hand! It was so cool to watch!

I’m just home from Florida. Loved seeing all the small lizards about

As a viewer from south Florida I’m so happy y’all did a video here!!!

I have never been this early 😍😍😍 I'm in FL, so awesome your here. I love this channel so much, thank you Emily for the content and for you being you!!

Happen to see the green one for first time where I'm staying, great video

I live in Orlando and we have so many lizards!! I had to relocate a lot of them when I was gardening. They do help with the insect problem

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU GUYS UPLOAD ❤️❤️🐍🦎🐊

I admire lizards. My parents’ place here in Florida is surrounded by palm trees and all kinds of plants that spiders would love. Unfortunately for the spiders, there are lizards everywhere. I recently moved into a brand new apartment and noticed the absence of lizards since the bushes around the buildings were still too small for them to live in. But 4 months later the lizards are showing up and eating the wolf spiders :)

Wow you guys go on a lot of vacations (which you totally deserve!!!) & always do fun stuff!

I just took a trip to florida and I saw almost all off these species \, this video is really helpful for identifying.

I got that phone after hearing you mention it in an earlier video....OMG much better than my LG Xcharges!!!!! Def happy with this phone. PS. Love your videos watch often :)

Great video, always enjoy watching and learning about species we dont have here in Australia. .

Awesome video I live in Florida we see the house geckos all the time have seen a lot more of the native anoles this year but still a lot of Cuban anoles also seen the knight anole in our tree once so there are around here also

What an informative video! I came here to look up this lizard I found in my yard that looks like a snake (never seen before), yet learned a lot! I’m also from cent-ral Florida and the brown anoles are almost friendly. I used to have a tame one that came to greet me every morning and hang out, that lived in the base of my patio umbrella holder. I had him for years till we moved. I now have another one that comes to greet me that lives in my Yucca tree on my back porch, he is there a few times a week. I’m surprised that this is the first time Ive really noticed the 5 lined skinks, maybe it was because it was so large!

Loved the video! I grew up on a big farm always work to do but, when I did have free time I loved finding lizards, frogs, snakes, and salamanders that lived around me! Always found spotted salamanders everywhere, I grew up in Ohio they are also our state amphibian!

Luv u guys keep up da great work

I used to catch those all the time! If just go outside and lay on the ground,staying absolutely still until one climbed on me and if quickly grab it! If of course let it go once I looked at it,but I love em so much!

Hey snake doscovery!! This channel is so cool!!

I remember seeing all the lizards when going to Disney world as a kid and I've never seen anything like the before. I thought it was so cool.

when i was little me and my friends would catch brown anoles whrn the sun set on summer days. It was so fun

Great information, great personalities, great channel.

And your snakes, and Rex are so amazing :D

I love five-lined skinks! They’re the reptile that got me into herping and learning all I can about reptiles!

AMAZING channel! Keep it up! 💗👍👌

!! i live in east tennessee and see those five-lined skinks literally all the time!! i never knew what they were called before but i love them so much

That Pickle Rick you had in the background tripped me OUT lmao

Cool video! Thanks you so much!

LOVE Snake Discovery!

Floridian here too, I love those little lizards I catch them some times and release them of course they are so adorable

Seeing little scale friends everywhere is my favorite part of living in Florida. I have those little brown anoles all over my yard, but never knew they were invasive!

I was raised in Tampa and used to catch those lizards all the time as a kid. It was a lot of fun.

4:40 I always see those when Im in Florida theyre so cute! One time I picked one up and it just started at me with those adorable eyes until I put it down lol

First of all, LOVE your videos!!! Second, you should totally add the Mediterranian house geckos that come out at night and my favorite, the Cuban knight anole!!! Those are huge and always my favorite to herp for when I visit back home. South Florida is full of invasive species. I've literally caught a wild baby asian water monitor, and rehomed him. Have seen tokay geckos when I was in uni. And Ft. Laud/Miami has a ton of Bahamian curly tailed lizards. Fun place to explore for sure!

Just when I thought I'd seen all of your videos, I find one that I haven't seen before!!!

Lol I go to cocoa beach to get on a cruise every year and I see them all the time thanks for covering it up