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Iguana and Its Habitat

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Now Beebe was actively observing tropical animal life for forty years and this was the most intelligent iguana activity he was able to report. Draw your own conclusions.

Your pet can be expected to respond in ways you can measure to warmth, light, food, dogs, and water, but you will need a lot of patience and a sharp eye to spot many of these responses.

When in trouble, an iguana heads for a tree or for water. The ideal escape would be up a tree overhanging water, then to drop into the water, swim underwater and quietly come to the surface sometime later. If things get worse, and only as a last resort, the iguana can drop most of his tail. The discarded appendage will swish about for a while and perhaps distract the enemy while the reptile makes his escape. The tail stump will bleed a little then heal and slowly regenerate, but it will never be as nice as the original. There will be a scar line and the new tail will probably be solid black rather than black-banded green, and possibly it will not be as long as the original. C’est la vie!

Common iguanas are arboreal. They like to live in trees. They could spend their entire adult lives in trees, the females coming down once a year to dig burrows in a sandy hillside to lay eggs and the young remaining on land until they get too large or slow or hungry to subsist on just crickets and smaller reptiles. Your pet should be permitted to climb and perch and feel secure on a high window sill, valance or mantle piece. He can manage without the water under the perch if you provide a place to bathe or soak once in a while.

Longevity records for iguanas suggest that ten years for a common green iguana is not at all unusual. One pet kept in an apartment is known by the author to be over twelve years old. W. Michael Carey of the University of South Florida, Tampa, reported on two caged pets, one of which lived twelve years and five months; when it died it measured about 13 1/2 inches from snout to vent. Since the tail might be more than three fifths the total length, we could estimate a total length of perhaps four feet. Another captive lived ten years and five months; its snout-vent length (SVL) was about twelve inches.

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The Veiled Substrate

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The Veiled Chameleon: Substrate – actual use – Thus the water doesn’t present a drowning problem for crickets, and it has a better chance of evaporating before the next hydration. In addition, because it is so absorbent, it holds a great deal of water, thus providing for a lengthy ….. My son wants a “lizard” but I have found he is intimidated by fast moving “lizards, ie: iguana, bearded dragon, nole, ect. I had a great idea (I think?) of buying him a pair of jacksons. How large of a reptarium should I purchase? …

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Aguidae

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The purely American Annielidae , consists of two species. Mainly subterranean in habits , it is known to be found near moisture, in loose soil such as beaches. Unlike the Dibamidael, Anniella has functional eyes and well developed eyelids.

The Anguindidae have their share of burrowers too , such as the well known slow-worm, Anguis fragilis , a worm eating species found in Britain and in continental Europe. They are remarkably long lived for lizards, being kept in captivity for over 50 years. and most effective eradicators of the garden “slug”.

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Spiny echidna – What has the beak of a bird, the spines of a hedgehog, the gait of a reptile, the pouch of a marsupial, and the lifespan of an elephant? If you answered an. … Native to New Guinea and Australia, echidnas weren’t even identified in the western world until 1792, when the first detailed description was published in England. Still, it took hundreds of years of technological advancements before any close study of the echidna was possible. At first glance, an observer might …

Unique to the continent of Australia and New Guinea is a family known as “scaly-footed lizards” and Pyrogodidae. These are characterized by being limbless save for a pair of flaps near the vent. They lack eyelids and the ear may be exposed or hidden.

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Food

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The iguana is smart. He selects his food to provide a balanced diet. If this is what you believe – great! The iguana is stupid, but providentially he is endowed with a very tolerant digestive system. Perhaps this is what you believe – great!

Here are a few facts about your iguana which might be useful regardless of which statement you believe. Young iguanas in the wild are known to eat insects, small animals, birds, other reptiles, land snails, fruit, vegetables, flowers and buds. Adult wild iguanas have been found with some animal food in their stomachs. Other adults have been known to thrive in the wild on a 100% vegetarian diet.

Iguanas are rarely seen to drink, but they do like to bathe and swim and soak; perhaps they do drink or absorb moisture through their skin. The Galapagos land iguana eats or licks plants wet with dew and also seems to drink sea water.

Iguanas consume some gravel which they use in their alimentary canals to aid in breaking up tough vegetable matter. One fine specimen of common iguana contributed to the Staten Island Zoo in New York was reported to have thrived on mozzarella cheese and ice cream. At the zoo it thrived on the regular iguana diet.

Another, a pet in Washington, D.C., ate vegetables for twelve years and is thriving. This specimen has a special fondness for frozen spinach souffle, served piping hot! He is known to drink water from time to time. His owner believes that the preference for vegetables over fruit may have been acquired since vegetables were all he got to eat when he was a baby twelve years ago.

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Basic Anatomy

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

In this section I have tried to outline the more important elements used in establishing a system of effective classification and at the same time to enlighten the layman to the “little things” that are a very important part of making a lizard a lizard. Although this chapter is brief, it is as complete as space allows and as accurate as possible.

Skull

In general discussions about the head of an animal, the upper portion is referred to as the cranium, while the lower part consists of the mandible. In lizards the foremost bone of the mandible is the dentary; it is at the foremost point of the dentary bone that the two halves of the mandibles are firmly united (the symphysis). The mandible articulates with the cranium at the quadrate bone, located near the rear of the cranium. The coronoid bone juts up behind the dentary bone and fits into a socket formed by the pterygoid bones of the cranium. The distance from the tip of the snout to the coronoid intersection determines the gape of the lizard.

In the mandible, teeth are found on the dentary bone; in the cranium they may be on the maxillary, premaxillary, palatine, or pterygoid bones. The teethe themselves may be pleurodont (along the side of the bone) or acrodont (along the crest of the bone). On some lizards thecodont teeth (fitting into sockets) are found, but along with one of the other types. The teeth may be pyramidal, conidal, flat, bicuspid, or tricuspid. They can be quickly and frequently replaced.

Between the maxillary, premaxillary, and septomaxillary, bones is a large gap in the cranium. This is in effect the internal nasal arch through which the nostrils draw air through the skull into the mouth. Another gap exists a little behind this.

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Care of Iguanas

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Still another iguana killer is respiratory disease. Generally it is found in run-down specimens. Buy a healthy animal and take good care of it and avoid this problem. If you are the owner of a thin-tailed, grey, wet-eyed or sunken-eyed snuffler who doesn’t eat or distend his dewlap of otherwise show an enthusiasm for life, you might try several cures simultaneously:

Try a penicillin-type drug administered by your veterinarian
Provide sunlight, preferably direct and unfiltered by glass.
Coax food – try variety
Avoid handling and stressing the animal
Keep temperature up – say 82 F to 90 F. Both day and night during the treatment.
Keep cage dry and clean. Clean means antiseptically clean. Wash the cage with a carbolic acid preparation like Lysol and then thoroughly rinse and dry it to assure that no chemical remains before placing the animal back in his quarters.
Avoid wooden cages and cages with complicated construction where parasites and germs can hide and avoid detection and disinfection.

It should be noted that some iguana parasites pass through complicated life cycles and during one stage may leave a reptile and find a bird or mammal host, possibly even a human. The important thing to remember is that the parasites like chiggers, ticks and mites sometimes carry within their systems such diseases as “Q” fever. When a mite carrying “Q” fever infests an iguana becomes a stepping stone for the disease to be transmitted further.

The control is simple. Free your iguana from ticks, chiggers and mites. Keep the iguana isolated from other animals which might transfer new infestations. Keep the cage clean. Sterilize it if necessary. Keep the cage simple so that parasites do not have a place to hide while you are eliminating the individuals clinging to your pet. Once freed of parasites your new acquisition need never be infested again.

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A Place in the Sun part 2

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

For a better understanding and another opinion of the relationship between what layman call “Iguana delicatissima” and “rhinolopha,” read James D. Lazell Jr., 1973, “The Lizard Genus Iguana in the Lesser Antilles,” Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 145, Number 1. Lazell is satisfied that there are two species, I iguana and I. delicatissima, and further that “rhinolopha” is not a valid species but rather that some iguanas just happen to have horn-like scales on their snouts. Dr. Lazell goes on in this 28-page illustrated dissertation to describe not only the structural features of these animals but also their natural history, and he makes an important point for pet keepers by remarking that he has seen wild iguanas eating birds’ eggs and carrion, but never papaya or citrus fruits.

The name iguana according to the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is derived from the Spanish equivalent of the Carib Indian name for these lizards, iwana. This name – iguana – was applied in 1825 to a fossil of a giant extinct herbivorous reptile, the Iguanodon. The Iguanodon, an extinct contemporary of the dinosaurs, and its modern namesake have in common a peculiar form of tooth, being round at the root and blade-like with serrated edges toward the tip. The teeth are described as pleurodont – that is, they are fastened to the inner surface rather than the top edge of the lower jaw.

This business of systematically classifying iguanas gets sticky, and with the aim of clarifying the issue you might want to refer to the informal arrangement in the next chapter. Bear in mind that this chapter is primarily about the true iguana, Iguana iguana, and in passing we will make reference to the dozen or so typical iguanas.

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Lizard Mantis Adaptions

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Aside from the typical sauiran characteristics , there are certain distinguishing through non universal traits found in lizards. There are various modifications found in certain organs .

The first structures in the lacertilian eye. The eyes may be extremely well developed with functional lids and color perceptions, or the eyes may be concealed under a layer or layers of skin , making them useless. The pupil or pupils could be elliptical or round. In the Gellonidae , at least many forms possess compound eyeballs. In the Chammaleontidae, the eyes are covered by a thick membrane of skin with a small aperture near the middle. Each eyeball can move of the other, a trait not wholly confined to the chameleons but found in other genera as well.

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A Place in the Sun

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The common green iguana is one species within one genus of a family of lizards found mostly in the New World. This green iguana and the other typical iguanas are tropical and semi-tropical and active during daylight hours (diurnal). Their eyes have round pupils and well developed lids. Their tongues are short, thick and only slightly notched, as contrasted to the long forked tongue of, for instance, the monitor lizards. It lays eggs, in common with most other iguanids (oviparous). Only a few give birth to living young (viviparous). They are frequently but not always brightly colored; they often have spines, frills or crests, and many can distend their throats. They can alter their color somewhat, some species more than others. Some may favor trees (arboreal) and others favor the land (terrestrial). Two are from the Galapagos Islands, and one of these is semi-marine, eats seaweed and would probably rather die than climb a tree.

For a beginning herpetologist or hobbyist pet keeper, the best iguana is the common green iguana – scientifically: Iguana iguana iguana. If you don’t go out of your way when you choose a pet in a pet shop, this is what you probably will get. Good. The only other iguanas that resemble it are Iguana iguana delicatissima which lacks the circular shields found below the eardrums of Iguana iguana iguana, and Iguana iguana rhinolopha which has a slight protuberance at the snout. So there you have it – genus Iguana, species iguana, and subspecies perhaps iguana or delicatissima or rhinolopha.