Florida is struggling with a fast-increasing population of invasive green iguanas that began as a small group of released and escaped pets. Thriving in the warm sunshine and humid climate, experts believe hundreds of thousands of nonnative iguanas now call the Sunshine State “home.” There, state conservation officials claim they threaten the wellbeing of native […]
During Winter Storm Grayson, aka the “Bomb Cyclone,” temperatures on the East Coast dropped below those on Mars. While 21 people had died as of Jan. 6, the storm also affected animals that aren’t used to such cold weather, including iguanas in Florida, sea turtles along the Gulf Coast and even penguins in a zoo. […]
While much of the northern part of the U.S. copes with blizzard conditions, in Florida, it’s raining iguanas. Florida residents have been sharing pictures of the reptiles belly up in backyards and on the side of roads. The effect is brought on by the abnormally cold weather hitting the East Coast of the United States. […]
On New Year’s Day our family drove down to Palm Beach County to visit my brother-in-law. The following morning I decided to visit Wakodahatchee Wetlands. It’s a wonderful place with a beautifully maintained board walk that takes you through the wetlands. My primary hope was to see the Neotropic Cormorant that has been hanging out […]
On Day 7 we were off to Arenal Observation Lodge, but stopped along the way at Las Iguanas restaurant for lunch and photographing Iguanas – both were quite good. The restaurant is along a river where the Iguanas congregate in the trees along the river banks and often come onto the restaurant property, just outside […]
If you encounter a Green Iguana with the glowing orange, grey, green, and streaks of blue colours, it is a male displaying its breeding colours. These colours get even more intense and vibrant as males encounter other males within a same pond. Male Green Iguanas are so territorial that they’ve been known to kill each […]
The male Green Iguana is larger than the female and is not green in color as an adult. Its dorsal spines that run along its back are noticeably longer and thicker. The male also is grey in color and but has vibrant orange streaks of color when breeding. Females Green Iguanas retail a vibrant solid […]
The Green Iguana or Common Iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, arboreal herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana native to Central and South America. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area, from southern Brazil and Paraguay to as far north as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands; and in the United States […]
The Green iguana and its relative the Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) have been used as a food source in Central and South America for thousands of years. It is possible that some of the populations in the Caribbean were translocated there from the mainland by various tribes as a food source. In Central and South […]
The green iguana depends a great deal on its long tail to swim efficiently and moves it in a curvilinear manner as shown in both these images. It moves exactly as a swimming snake moves when swimming in water. Iguanas are reptiles, however, and spend their lives mostly on land and in trees.
This is a Dorado Beach scene as I saw it about a year ago, when it was no longer part of the Hyatt chain of hotels. Although this piece of paradise is privatised, it is actually a wildlife reserve where a bountiful of birds and other wildlife thrive. The Atlantic coast of Puerto Rico has […]
