It has been discovered that male Jamaican anole lizards begin and end each day with strength exercises.
The lizards perform push-ups, head bobs, and extensions of a colorful neck flap, or dewlap, to defend their territory. “Anoles are highly visual species, so in that sense it is not surprising that they would use visual displays to mark territory,” said Terry J. Ord, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis and at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Ord studied four species of Jamaican forest lizard. They found that females establish territories allowing access to food and other resources, while males stake out larger territories permitting access to females. The males spend most of the day on tree trunks displaying head motions, push-ups, and dewlap extensions to warn other males to stay away from their territory.
This is not exactly a health article; however, I thought it was interesting and it relates to strength.
Reference: University of California Davis
It has been discovered that male Jamaican anole lizards begin and end each day with strength exercises.
The lizards perform push-ups, head bobs, and extensions of a colorful neck flap, or dewlap, to defend their territory. “Anoles are highly visual species, so in that sense it is not surprising that they would use visual displays to mark territory,” said Terry J. Ord, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis and at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Ord studied four species of Jamaican forest lizard. They found that females establish territories allowing access to food and other resources, while males stake out larger territories permitting access to females. The males spend most of the day on tree trunks displaying head motions, push-ups, and dewlap extensions to warn other males to stay away from their territory.
This is not exactly a health article; however, I thought it was interesting and it relates to strength.
Reference: University of California Davis