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Iguana
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Copyright: Fabiano Chede (fchede) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 31 W: 0 N: 141] (500)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-12-11
Categories: Reptiles
Exposure: f/4, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-10-19 18:40
Viewed: 531
Points: 4
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This is a Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) I captured in wild in Northern Brazil. This big lizards seems to be pre-historic. Beautiful and clumsy animal, it is hard to believe they easily climb trees and spend the night there. This one is still a juvenile changing skin.

Something about it:

The green iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, arboreal lizard from Central and South America. The green iguana is found over a large geographic area, from Mexico to southern Brazil and Paraguay, as well as on the Caribbean Islands and Florida (populations are feral). They are typically about 1.5m in length from head to tail, and only very few specimens reach a length of more than 2m (6 feet)and can weigh up to 20+ pounds (10 kg).

Green iguanas have a row of spines along their backs and along their tails which help protect them from predators. Their tails can be used like whips and can be painful when they strike. Like many other lizards, when grabbed by the tail, the iguana can allow it to break, escape and eventually regrow a new one. Green iguanas have excellent vision. They can detect shapes and motions at very long distances. Iguanas have only a few rods and thus have poor vision in dim light.
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Hi Fabiano.
Stunning sharpness, detail, exposure and colour. I see the skin shedding off there, looks like netting. Amazing they can get to 6 feet long.
Superb image

Kathleen

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  • jesst Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 353 W: 0 N: 160] (2012)
  • [2007-10-20 0:20]

Wonderful portrait!
Detail on skin is excellent, color and sharp is very good

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