Aruba Photos

[wyntir_knight]

For those who may be interested, here are the few photos I took of Aruba. There honestly wasn't a lot to photograph ... but ther are many pictures of the local iguanas. ... Yeah, I'm not a photographer.

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[wyntir-rose.livejournal.com]

I love iguanas ... actually, I love just about all reptiles except for the Komodo Dragon, and they frighten me more than they disgust me. I've often been tempted to get a reptile, but I worry about how my cats would react, and my mother forbids me from letting one into the house. I figure I can wait.

As for the "chameleon", yeah, you're right. The body and eyes are all wrong too. I think it might actually be some kind of a colour-changing iguana, but I don't know enough about herpetology to tell what it is. The little bit of research I've done so far says that the Green Iguana (and all the iguanas we saw were Greens) changes colour from green to brown, but these little ones turned blue and purple. I think I need to do more research.

[nightwind69.livejournal.com]

I believe that there is something called a "spotted iguana," which IIRC is a Caribbean-island native. Given that your critter has spots, that would be my first impulse for identification, but I certainly don't know for sure.

Lizards as pets are a lot of fun, but when/if you get one, do lots of research as ALL of them have some fairly demanding and specific environmental and, in the case of vegetarians like iguanas, dietary/vitamin supplementation requirements. Carnivores like monitor lizards are a lot easier to take care of in that regard, but you don't want to be bitten by one. :) Not only does it hurt, but the wound is practically guaranteed to become infected. :p So, it's a toss-up. :)