We've recently opened our anole exhibit, featuring a cloud-forest type ecosystem and our green anole Kermit. This habitat is situated next to the coastal chaparral lizard tank. As like all of our builds, the habitat was carefully crafted to replicate a tropical ecosystem. We are planning to specifically target the microclimate of Cuba, which has the largest anole ( Anolis ) species diversity. The habitat contains multiple invertebrates alongside Kermit such as Decollate snails, polygrid...

Elgaria is a small genus of anguid lizards that are limited to the West Coast of North America. Commonly known as 'alligator lizard's they are characterized by their slender, snake like appearance with small, stubby legs and a tail that usually takes up half of their body. Alligator lizards normally inhabit coastal areas though some subspecies tend to tolerate higher elevations, especially in the Cascade and Sierra Ranges ( https://californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/e.c.palmeri.html ). There...

Today we explored Reservoir park for the first time this year - a small part of native ground that used to be connected to Glen park but the two parks have been divided by O'Shaughnessy Blvd. I have completed a map below that shows the microclimates of the park. The Park seems to be in good shape when we visited in March 1, 2026. The invasive flowers typical for this year (Rumex acetosella and Oxalis pes-caprae) were plentiful, which aligns with the 5"+ inches of rain that fell last month....