Who: Eric McElroy, Assistant Professorof Biology
Who else: His students, who last spring designed and conducted a mark-recapture study of some of the anole 
lizards on campus.
Their Study: Four students used racetracks and endurance tracks to test 50 lizards for speed, acceleration and stamina. Once the lizards' test results, genetic information and habitat were recorded, the students tagged and released the little green guys, who will be recaptured next spring to determine how their physical performance affects their survival rates.
His Lifelong Study: "My research goal is to integrate studies of how animals move (performance - meaning speed, acceleration, endurance, etc.) with studies of how movement is important for fitness (survival and numbers of offspring). I do this through lab and field studies of lizards in South Carolina and around the world. The lizard in the picture is a long-tailed grass lizard, which is native to China and lives in bamboo and grasses. It's amazing because its tail is almost two times longer than its body!"
Check out Eric McElroy and his students' lizard research online.