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IGUANA
Montería - Cordoba Department
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Being in the city of Monteria, a warm city in the northern Colombian coast, is the park ROUND RIVER SINU. A beautiful place to walk along its banks and enjoy watching the calm waters of this river and its beautiful landscapes.

Saturday, 8:30 am. The sun begins to heat up strongly, and the iguanas begin to lose the trees bordering the river, looking for food, and vegetables that usually leaves the park conservationists them.

With all precautionary step pending the bystanders and tourists are not scared and fled out due to their arboreal nests. But this issue gave me the opportunity to serve as a model and to capture its natural beauty, the features of prehistoric and scaly skin, their bright colors.

WS hang in a general view of this beautiful place along the river parallel Sinú, and natural habitats of these species in danger of extinction.

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Iguana is a genus of lizard family Iguanidae, native to tropical Central and South America and the Caribbean, which was first described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768.

The word "Iguana" is derived from the Taíno name for this animal, "Iwana".

This lizard has a double chin, a pair of spines running through the back to the tail and a third eye in his head. The latter is known as the parietal eye, which seems a pale scales on the head.

Behind the neck are some scales which resemble spikes, appointed scales.

Iguanas can measure 7.5 centimeters to 2 meters, 1.3 meters of which belong to the tail. They are herbivores and are played through eggs that are placed underground during the month of February.

It reaches sexual maturity at 16 months of age, but are considered adults at 36 months, when measured 70 centimeters long.

The iguanas have excellent vision and can see bodies, shadows and movement over long distances.

Iguanas use their eyes to navigate through dense forests, as well as to find food.

They also have some visual cues to communicate with other iguanas.

Iguana's ear is known as the eardrum, which is an external structure located near the eyes, which actually does not process the sound, it simply conveys an inner ear that is protected from water and foreign objects. It is a thin and delicate part of the iguana, and it is important for hearing.

The iguanas are typical of America in their forested wetlands. They are found from central Mexico to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay and Peru, through the Caribbean.

Normally live in trees about 1.2 m above the ground, and despite their size can quickly move between plants.

Amicably, John