No iguana wants to be cooked alive on a hot rock and then served up as dinner for a Galapagos hawk. But it turns out the marine iguanas have a strategy that warns them of the presence of hawks they can’t see. They learned to tune in to a kind of police scanner…the alarm calls of mockingbirds. Photo Credit: Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan Download a transcript of this podcastread moreDuration: 4:13Published: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:06:48 +0000
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
Omar Torres-Carvajal, Pablo J. Venegas, Kevin de Queiroz
Zookeys
Figure 1.Holotype (QCAZ 8073, adult male, SVL = 119 mm) of Enyalioides altotambo in dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) views. Photographs by Luis A. Coloma.
2012/08/04: I was cleaning the reptile enclosures at The Wildlife Center* today when Basil the bull snake started shedding. I had the iPhone handy and was able to get a picture of how the process works.
Apologies to those who find this sort of thing more gross than fascinating.
*2016/04/12: The Wildlife Center is now New Mexico Wildlife Center:
http://thewildlifecenter.org
https://nmwceducation.org
[taxonomy:binomial=pituophis catenifer]
[taxonomy:common=bull snake]