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12/04/2024

COSTA RICA🇨🇷 2024 🐸🦅🐍🦜🦎

12/03/2024

PANAMA 2024 🇵🇦✨💫

12/27/2023

More amphibians and lizards from Costa Rica🇨🇷

12/17/2023

Costa Rica 🐍💚

12/03/2023

Costa Rica 🐸🦖🦎

10/28/2023

More cool lizards from these lands 💚

09/23/2023

Some lizards found between Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia

09/01/2023

This was my fourth attempt to find Corytophanes cristatus in the wild. They are not the rarest reptiles, but not easy to find in most places where they occur. Finding this beauty was the result of 20 plus hours of hiking in tropical rainforests 🦟🪰inspecting almost every single branch and slim tree trunk I came across 😅 sometimes you wonder if they really are in the area where you are looking or is just a myth lol ...most people would believe it is insane to do all this to find a lizard. But for me... I just can't describe that feeling when I finally do... and that is why I don't give up. I am sure some of you would understand 💚

08/29/2023

🐲Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) from South Plaza and Baltra islands.
South Plaza land iguanas are the smallest ones, with bright yellow heads. Baltra island land iguanas are much larger and not as brightly colored.
Their diet consists mainly of opuntia cactus. Which is also their main source of water. They use their claws to remove as many spines as possible and they spit out any that may be left. They also eat the cactus flowers and fruits (prickly pears). In order to remove the spines from the fruit, they roll it against the ground with their snout.
In South Plaza island I was extremely lucky to observe a young hybrid C. subcristatus x A. cristatus. (Last 4 pics) Hybridization between marine and land iguanas only occurs in this island, offsprings are sterile, and only 6 individuals are believed to exist nowadays. The individual we found had mostly land iguana behavior, and we saw it rolling a prickly pear in the ground.

08/26/2023

Microlophus is a genus of South American lizards which includes between 15 and 20 species.
7 of these are endemic to the Galapagos Islands, where they are known as lava lizards.

Each group of island has its own species of lava lizard.

I managed to see 3 species:
-M. indefatigabilis from Santa Cruz.
-M. albemarlensis from Isabela.
-M. grayii from Floreana

There is significant sexual dimorphism in all lava lizard species. Males are larger than females and have a dorsal crest. Females usually have a greenish body with a red head.
Patterns, colors and size vary between these species. But even within the same species there can be a lot of variety in terms of colors and specially patterns.

Males are very territorial. A single male can protect areas as large as 400 sq mts, in which several females live.

08/21/2023

A few pictures I took from 3 different subspecies of Amblyrhynchus cristatus :
A. c. hassi from Santa Cruz.
A. c. albemarlensis from Isabela, larger in size than hassi, longer face horns and longer crest spikes.
A. c. venustissimus from Floreana. Incredible pink/rusty colorations, specially in males. In breeding season, November-January they are even more colorful.

Marine iguanas are the only lizards truly adapted to live in the sea. I saw some in very isolated rocks, miles away from their main island, where the ocean has very strong currents and massive waves (last two pictures is one of the isolated rocks where I saw a couple).

They have very strong and sharp claws that helps them grab and walk through the rocks underwater, and a very powerful tail to swim and to help keep balance with the strong ocean currents.

They can dive deeper than 90 feet, and hold their breath for around 30 minutes if needed.
They feed mostly on algae that grow along rocky shores.
Since they feed underwater they ingest a large amount of saltwater. They have evolved specialized glands that remove salt from their blood. To avoid dehydration they sneeze out the salt from their nostrils without expelling water.

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