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
General Description: AR502582 and AR502583 are images of the same specimens, No. 201 and USNM 8221, as is AR502584, which is housed in a separate envelope. Envelope Notes Verbatim: The smaller specimen, Type of Ctenosaura multispinis Cope, male, No. 201, coll. By F. Sumichrast in Dondominguello, Oaxaca, Mexico, Aug. 10, 1868; The larger specimen, USNM 8221, Ctenosaura completa Bocourt, Merida, Yucatan by Dr. A. Schott.