Our first experiment
The first experiment was placing the Anole outside of its enclosure, placing a mirroring close to the Anole and observing what happened, while having a timer. The hypothesis was whether the Anole WOULD or would NOT react to the mirror stimuli.
Before Removing the Anole
Here is a picture of our Anole before removing it from its enclosure. Please note the dark brown color it currently is. We did not instigate this color change before the experiment took place. This was a natural occurrence.
Removal of the Anole
As soon as we removed the Anole, it changed to a bright GREEN color immediately in the separate enclosure. The color brown is supposed to represent a stressor to the Anole, and the green color is supposed to represent a positive emotion and surrounding environment to the Anole. We found this interesting. The color changed happened in the time of 2 minutes.
Inclusion of the Mirror
We placed the mirror in front of the Anole and kept the mirror close to its line of sight consistently. The Anole showed NO response to the mirrored image, no matter how close or how far we placed the mirror in the separate enclosure. Though, the Anole stayed bright green throughout this process.
PLacing the Anole back into the Enclosure
What we found interesting is that once we placed the Anole back in its enclosure, the Anole stayed bright green for a timed amount of over 5 minutes. What we need to note is that this was the LONGEST amount of time that the Anole had stayed this bright green color. The Anole's personality seemed to change as well. Once commonly hating water before, now basked in the spritzer.
Conclusion
Our Anole is in fact a FEMALE. And therefore, will NOT respond to the mirror.