Lizard found in kindergartner's salad becomes new class pet
Source: AP
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) A central New Jersey elementary school science class has a new pet after a lizard was discovered in a student's salad after being refrigerated for days.
Riverside Elementary School science teacher Mark Eastburn tells NJ.com (http://bit.ly/1nMqTYC ) the 3-inch green anole lizard was found in a bundle of tatsoi greens last week by a kindergartner.
The lizard had been cold and lifeless after being confined in a refrigerator for days. The lizard has since been warmed and lives in a cage in Eastburn's class.
The lizard, dubbed "Green Fruit Loop," came from Florida.
A little more at link. Video below photo.
Photo from NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2016/01/lizard_found_in_salad_becomes_science_lab_mascot.html#incart_river_home
A green anole lizard that was found in a student's salad has now become a mascot in Riverside Elementary School's science lab. (Courtesy of Mark Eastburn) ( )
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)Risk for food borne illness in the food chain...there is no way to know or keep snakes, lizards and a hundred other food borne illness carriers out of fields...
I don't think that is a green anole, I think it is a Cuban anole, which is one of the many I vasive species in Florida. They are a little bigger and a little more aggressive and have pretty much taken over from the green ones that used to be every where when I was a kid.
1monster
(11,012 posts)anole. We have bunches of both kinds in our area.
d_r
(6,907 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)and very healthy. Usually with a protein OTHER than reptile, but hey, "de gustibus non est disputandum"
Good for them for saving the little fella.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)When I was in elementary school it was one teacher teaching all the subjects.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)no more nappy time in kindergarten either...
Those days are long gone
NickB79
(19,243 posts)My 5-yr old has separate teachers for music, PE, art, tech (she was just showing me how to go into the Settings menu and activate Bluetooth on a tablet, wtf?). I was blown away by this as well; we had one teacher in kindergarten in the 80's. She's also doing addition and subtraction already; I don't remember learning math so early!
Our school district even gives all the kids K-12 their own iPads now (though they don't get to take them home until 2nd grade). Damn.
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)It's tremendous the student has befriended the bewildered little stranger,
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Bayard
(22,071 posts)I had one as a pet when I was a kid. He ate meal worms, and lived in an oatmeal box when he wasn't running around our curtains catching flies.
christx30
(6,241 posts)last week. She Ruffles the curtain, and what she thought was a lizard toy fell out. She looked at it, then it looked at her. She screamed. I was able to get it into a box (tilted box on side, and used a DVD case to guide it in). I left it in the grass outside. It was such a beautiful little guy. I got a great picture of it.