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Iguanas are large, docile lizards native to Central and South America and the Caribbean. They have excellent vision that allows them to detect movement from long distances to seek prey and avoid predators. Iguanas communicate visually through rapid eye movements and prefer to live high in trees, coming down only to lay eggs, but can adapt to more open areas if near water, where they are strong swimmers. Their natural green and brown coloring allows them to blend into forests and remain still to avoid detection by predators.

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Iguana

Iguanas are large, docile lizards native to Central and South America and the Caribbean. They have excellent vision that allows them to detect movement from long distances to seek prey and avoid predators. Iguanas communicate visually through rapid eye movements and prefer to live high in trees, coming down only to lay eggs, but can adapt to more open areas if near water, where they are strong swimmers. Their natural green and brown coloring allows them to blend into forests and remain still to avoid detection by predators.

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Iguanas are native to the jungles of central and south America, and the

Caribbean. The iguana is a large docile species of lizard, meaning that iguanas
are often a popular choice when keeping exotic pets.

Iguanas have excellent sight allowing the iguana to detect movement from
incredibly long distances. The iguana can use this skill to seek out prey and be
aware of approaching predatorsoften before the predator has even noticed the
iguana.

It is said that the iguana uses visual signals to communicate with other iguanas.
The iguanas do this through a series of rapid eye movements that other iguanas
are able to pick up on easily due to the excellent sight of the iguana.

Green Iguanas are forest dwelling lizards that live high in the tree canopy of the
South American rainforest. Young iguanas get to grips with tree top living by
staying in areas lower in the canopies while older mature adult iguanas reside
higher up in the tree tops. This tree dwelling habit allows the iguana to bask in
the sun, with little need to go down to the forest floor below. The only real
exception to this is when the female iguanas must come down from their sky
high home in order to dig burrows in which the female iguanas lay their eggs.

Although iguanas tend to prefer the forest environment, iguanas can adjust well
to more open areas. However, wherever the iguanas inhabit, iguanas prefer to
have water around them as iguanas are excellent swimmers and will often dive
beneath the water to avoid oncoming predators.

Although iguanas are classed as omnivores, most iguana individuals in the wild,
tend to enjoy a very herbivorous diet, with ripened fruit being one of the
iguanas favourite foods along with leafy green plants. Most mature adult
iguanas weigh around 4 kg, but it is not uncommon for large, healthy iguanas
where food is in good supply, to weigh up to 8 kg and grow to over 2 meters in
length.

Due to the natural green and brown colours of the scales of the iguana, iguanas
are easily able to make themselves invisible to predators. Iguanas do this well as
the iguana blends extremely effectively into the surrounding forest and the
iguana will then remain extremely still until the predator has passed. Iguanas
will often choose basking spots on those tree branches that hang over water so
that if the iguana does feel threated, the iguana can leap from the tree into the
water and therefore the iguana can quickly escape oncoming danger.

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