I’m down in the Dominican Republic along with graduate students Daniel Scantlebury and Anthony Geneva. We’ve enjoyed some excellent lizard hunting thusfar and have plenty of new samples for our study of ecological speciation in Hispaniolan trunk anoles. The photos above are from two recent hikes. On the left, Anthony and I are exploring a gully in the river that runs along the Recodo Road (a region that has fascinated anole biologists for decades).  On the right is a shot of Dan and Anthony heading toward a patch of forest on the other side of a denuded ridge just north of Bani.  Wireless internet has reached Bani, so we hope to have post stories and photos regularly on our lab webpage.  We’ll be back in a bit more than a week, hopefully with plenty of lizards in tow!