iggy (iguana)

in #pets8 years ago



Or commonly called the Iguana. This iguana living in areas with extreme hot temperatures of around sonora desert, mojave and around the Gulf of California. The iguana has a brown color to the red and turned into stripes along the tail. Their habitat is usually found on a bush - a bush, dry and sandy desert soil. These  lizards can withstand high temperatures and under the sun when the  animals - other animals is not strong anymore under the hot sun is hot  and enter bore their hideout. Foxholes they are usually built under the sand dune area up around the dense bush. They sometimes also often use holes of other animals that are not inhabited as a hiding place of their own.
Mating usually takes place in early spring and can only lay eggs about 8 grains per year and will hatch around september. Desert iguanas generally are herbivores that feed on fruit, flowers, and foliage. Natural  predators of the desert iguana there are many such large birds, foxes,  rats, weasels and snakes and humans due to its size is not as big as the  genus - genus other iguana. Dipsosaurus  genus has only one species only the dorsal Dipsosaurus but has a  variety of colors from light to dark, depending on the habitat and the  location of their lives.

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