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Common lizard research project in the Carnic Alps

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Want to join #TeamLizard2026? We are recruting volunteers for our upcoming field season (May-Sep). All main expenses (food, camping/accommodation fees, and other) and travel costs up to intra-European value will be covered. DM for full details.

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Who's catching all these lizards? Meet the 2025 field team! It's a long season (May–September), so not everyone was there all at once, but here's most of us—including PI @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social and visiting ecophysiology collaborators, @jflegalliard.bsky.social and his PhD student Nicolas.

Eight people stand or crouch on a wooden porch in front of a backdrop of Alpine trees: William, Kathryn, Molly, J., Jean-Francois, Nicolas, Mathis, Blaž. Jean-Francois holds a hand broom/dust brush, which we learned is inexplicably called a 'whisk' by at least some Canadians. Cultural exchange is a great part of science!

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Interbreeding means overwintering controlled crosses in shared enclosures. This means that after catching lizards from the hybrid zone, the field team then had to care for them until they went into their enclosures, as well as incubate their eggs and care for the young. A lot of lizard husbandry!

An adult lizard in her summer enclosure. She is brown with reticulated black and beige markings on her back. She is on a substrate of dirt and moss and is in the corner of a plastic container. A bright yellow object is just barely visible behind her; this is an infertile egg. Photo by M. Uzzell.

Three oviparous lizard hatchlings, in an incubation box next to their three empty eggshells and one still-unhatched egg. They are on a substrate of moist vermiculite, which can be seen lying flat in adjacent chambers but in this one has been kicked messily around the box, partially covering the unhatched egg. The babies are dark brown with grey-black tails. Photo by M. Uzzell.

A close-up photo of a lizard hatchling among some light brown sphagnum moss. The hatchling is dark brown with a darker tail, and has tiny beige spots along the length of its body. Its toes are very long. This is an oviparous hatchling on the day of its birth. Photo my M. Uzzell.

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

You've heard of COW TOOLS, but did you know the Gail Valley is also home to an incredibly cool lizard hybrid zone? Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids. (Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)

A Eurasian common lizard on a grey tree stump, with grass and brush in the background. Photo by J. Smout.

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We'll have some Actual Content soon, we promise -- but to get you started, check out Molly's thread from last year about what we're doing here:

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Team Lizard @teamlizard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hello world! We led a tour of the field site yesterday, and one of our guests was asking if we had social media. We didn't ... until now!

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