An anole shedding his skin. He wants to be ready for the new year. #nature #anole

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It’s cool we had a Leopard Gecko and put a young wild Garter Snake in with him. After 48hr of small skirmishes to establish that neither was dominant, we would start to find them curled up together and the snake would actually assist the gecko when he was shedding, and eat the shed skin. They both got a steady diet of crickets in calcium powder, and baby mice.

Oh wow, that must have been so fun to watch. Do you keep small reptiles?

We took on the gecko from friends who were relocating, and it just kind of went from there. The snake we captured on a hike and it turned into a cool story of mixed species cooperation and cohabitation