Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head Two recent research efforts looked into the southern alligator lizard, which has one of nature’s more extreme mating strategies. Interesting New York Times Science story includes a reference to iNaturalist: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/science/lizard-sex-j…

That project asked me for my observation earlier this year. Very fun.

That is so interesting, how data from iNat can be used directly in research. Hope somehow I’d be able to contribute to society in a way like this. On a side note, those lizards are really rough when mating, I actually wonder the reasons as to why… winnowing the weaker ones to find those with the st…

Just read it up, oh wow, it’s very different from what I had originally thought. A lot more gentle than Varanus lizards at least! Still, I wonder why they do that, not to mention the sheer amount of time it apparently takes. Actually reminds me of snakes for some reason…

We scooped the New York Times on this story three years ago :wink: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/11218-inaturalist-occurrence-data-and-alligator-lizard-mating

Well, well, well… the story that keeps on going. :)

Also, I loved the great video with Dr. Pauly… he just nails it!

NYT refs iNaturalist in research

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benkendrick September 30, 2020, 6:38pm 2

Thanks for this post :) I love hearing the ways people use iNat data.

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NYT refs iNaturalist in research

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