Cold-blooded cannibals

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Mediterranean island lizards are important pollinators and seed dispersers, but adults also cannibalize eggs and young lizards.1 This video won the 2011 NESCent Film Festival.

Cold-Blooded Cannibals: Extreme Adaptations to Island Life from Day's Edge Productions on Vimeo.


The deadline for the 2012 competition is Friday, 29 June 2012. Visit the NESCent Film Festival site for more information.

1Jens Oleson and Alfredo Valido review some of the literature on lizard pollination in "Lizards as pollinators and seed dispersers: an island phenomenon," Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:177-181. (PDF)

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