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
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.
Yucatan Blunthead Snake (Imantodes tenuissimus)Merida, Yucatan, MexicoFound this while exploring a depression with a friend. The place was very hard to explore, and when we were about to start going back, I spotted this snake just staying still and posing on a plant :)
The Sumatran form of this species is sometimes called the Spotted Cat Snake. Photo from near the town Telukkuantan. (That is a machete cut on its head).