Lizard found in kindergartner's salad becomes new class pet

[Omaha Steve]

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) ( )

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2d4eeb19a1ce495097fdd8d401f4ad29/lizard-found-kindergartners-salad-becomes-new-class-pet

[pipoman]

1. This is why raw fresh veggies are the greatest

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...

[d_r]

2. Fwiw

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]

9. The Cuban anoles have a rick rack pattern down the middle of their backs. This one is a green

anole. We have bunches of both kinds in our area.

[d_r]

12. cool thanks I didn't know that

[azurnoir]

3. Thanks for making me smile this morning

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Salad nicoise is haute cuisine many places...

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]

5. There are seperate subject teachers in elementary school, now?

When I was in elementary school it was one teacher teaching all the subjects.

[snooper2]

8. My daughter in kindergarten has a separate art/PE/computer teachers

no more nappy time in kindergarten either...

Those days are long gone

[NickB79]

13. Yeah, it starts in kindergarten now

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]

6. Poor lizard! I'm so glad he survived this bizarre ordeal.

It's tremendous the student has befriended the bewildered little stranger,

[Jerry442]

7. LOL. When life gives you lemons... NT

[Bayard]

10. Those little guys are great!

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]

11. My wife was cleaning my son's room

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.