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
From the Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, 1885Plate IV, fig. 2, from the Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum, 2nd ed. George Albert Boulenger. 1885. London. Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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]