I have a few anoles out in my greenhouse to keep the ant population down. I bought them for $3 each at the pet store this summer, and they are a delight to watch as they leap around, licking up pests.
But yesterday, I walked out to my greenhouse and was greeted with one of my high velocity ceiling fans making a whhhrrrrr...TICK......whhhrrrrr...TICK noise. Looking up, I was horrified to see one of the anoles intermittently flying around inside the fan cage as his poor little body hit the blades.
Screaming, I ran to the breaker and shut everything off, then grabbed a ladder to retrieve the presumably mangled corpse.
But before I could climb up . . . thump. . . the body fell out of the fan grating and onto the ground.
I reached down to pick it up, and boy was I happily surprised when he ran up my arm onto my shoulder! If a lizard could have a wild look in his eye, this little tyke had one! His color was a mottled patchwork of green and brown, and he was actually panting, but amazingly, there was not a mark on him!
The only thing I could figure was that he was so lightweight, the fan was just throwing him around instead of chopping him up! I hope he learned his lesson, but I doubt it.
Blessed Thanksgiving!
Carolyn