Marine Iguana

What are marine iguanas

As its name indicates, the marine iguana is set apart from the rest of its parent, mainly because it has a single attribute to be able to forage and live in sea water. Marine iguana is in truth that to be found growing in the Galápagos Islands that is why its existence on the island a brand name "Galapagos marine iguanas" reptile The natural habitat of the marine iguana is on the rocky shores of the island of the Galapagos, but they can even be considered in the marshes and mangrove beaches.

Some people such as Charles Darwin described the prosperous marine iguanas as black lizards on the sea. But the truth is that the marine iguanas are not usually black in color. The young marine iguanas take the color of the dorsal stripe while adults are greyish. Their colour can be really dull, but there is a reason behind all this. These colors enables them to easily absorb law of heat after they come out of the water. Their food is usually marine algae. They hunted the remaining salts of their nasal glands as they will with basking in the heat of the Sun. The salt content in their body makes their faces appear whiter.

Even more matured male marine iguanas have a variable color - dependent of the current season. During the breeding seasons, adult male marine iguanas become teal-green or reddish in color. Those prosperous Santa Cruz seem to brick red and black, while those of Fernandina come in green and red colors dull brick. Their sizes are different in the same way that depends on the island that they live in. Those that are found in all of the Isabela and Fernandina are the biggest marine iguanas in the entire island of the Galapagos. During this time, the smaller marine iguanas are found in Tower.

As said of poikilothermic animals, marine iguanas can spend only little time out in the cold sea each time that they dive for food from algae. Thus, they commonly swim in the shallow waters of the island. After swimming, they go to basking in the Sun to have their body heated again. During the cold days, the marine iguanas can not effectively move making it too vulnerable to predators. Since they can move quickly, what they do is to hit their tail in the air and bite their enemies. During the entire breeding season, male marine iguanas to mate with the females and even of keep them against the rest of the male reptiles.

In addition, the marine iguanas adjust their sizes to be able to adapt to the condition of the food in there. It was once at the beginning of the El Niño when algae have decreased in number for marine iguanas has in fact decreased in their lengths too. When the food supply began to normalize, reptile returns to their normal state. Marine iguanas are not as fast as the rest of his parents. Taken as pets, their predators become the dogs and cats. They can be easily attacked by these predators because they are too slow and much tamed.

To date, the Government of the Ecuador has implemented laws to protect the existence of marine iguanas. There are artificial nest sites that had been made in small islands so that there will be fewer predators which affect to their.

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