Iguana facts

Facts on iguanas

Most iguanas are visible in tropical and subtropical forests, deserts and along the coast. Places like Canada, Galapagos Island, South and Central America, Caribbean Islands, Madagascar, Fiji in the South Pacific and off the coast of Africa, you will find different kinds of lizards.

Iguanas are the most popular and largest of the lizard family. Like other common reptiles, they are also laying animal composure which has a capacity to adapt to their environment.

Different lizard species differs greatly on his behavior, color, size, and their status as endangered in the wild. Of the common species as red iguanas and green iguanas are still in great numbers, but species such as the iguana Fiji Island and Brachylophus vitiensis are more endangered.

Different types of iguanas are difficult to recognize as members of a family. They act and see differently. Some iguanas have bright, vivid colors and others are dull. Each species of iguanas has its own adaptation because it is found in a variety of habitats.

Horned lizards as pets

In America, iguanas are kept as pets. The Americans believe that, in taking care of the iguana, they can save these iguanas to be extinguished. In addition, they are aware of the proper handling of iguanas, as the habitat, food habits and other things relevant to their existence.

Iguanas are generally herbivorous, eating flower buds, young leaves and fruit. Some also eat rare juicy mealworm, worm wax and cricket. In some places in America, iguanas are fed by different types or dark green vegetables and different fruits.

Lizard species is growing rapidly. They can be five times more long and 100 times heavier in adulthood than its size of small turtles in just for 24 months.

That is why it is vital to your iguana to provide good food and food, living space and an appropriate temperature range. Iguanas are kept in a small place without any food and feeding and no exposure to the Sun would likely grow at a slower pace. The os would become as low and easily expose to serious fracture and bone metabolic disease.

How will you know if the iguana is a man or a woman?

Male iguanas were usually large fatty pockets on the back of the head. They tend to have large or heavy jowls and pores femoral lager or plugs on the underside of the thigh. Also, males usually have heads confuses larger than females. On the other hand, female lizards have large pockets of fat on their head. The latter also does tend not to have large or heavy jowls. They have plugs and very small femoral pores and generally more small heads.

Male iguanas are also involved in courtship behaviors of it erect spines on the back and head. In courtship, male iguanas are somewhat aggressive, but they are usually quite shy and will flee approached.

In addition, most female iguanas dig a burrow in a sunny area, lay eggs and cover them and he leave the eggs alone. The warm temperature makes the eggs incubate. Usually all the eggs in the nest hatch at the same time. On the other side, lizards face many dangers of loss of habitat to prey on lizards and eat them humans. Several measures can help iguana survive as education programs for people living in habitats of the iguana, spread in captivity in zoos and the restrictions on hunting.

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