Green Iguana

High up in the branches of mangrove trees, well camouflaged by leaves, the green iguana (Iguana iguana) feels fairly well protected and browses on leaves, flowers and fruit. If it is threatened, this large lizard will dive from the tree into a swamp or river and swim to safety. It can fall 12-15 metres to the ground unhurt if the water is too far away to break its fall. Not all of its time is spent climbing or swimming: the cold-blooded iguana also lies on rocks basking in the sunshine.

The green iguana has long been hunted for food by South Americans, who call it 'bamboo chicken', although some say the taste resembles rabbit. Many wild iguanas have been captured for the pet industry but iguana farms now cater for the trade and laws protect it from over-hunting.

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Animals in Locations
Jungle
Asiatic Striped Squirrel • Bengal Tiger • Indian Runner Duck • Marsh Crocodile • Plain Parakeet • Striped Hyena • Tiger Snake
Rainforest
Armadillo • Anaconda • Amazon River Dolphin • Amazon Weasel • Ahaetulla Nasuta • Anteaters • American Crow • African Forest Elephant • Bee • Baltimore Oriole Bird • Bluebirds • Cougar (Puma) • Chinchilla • Caiman • Chicken • Condor • Capuchin Monkey • Coyote • Crab • Capybara • Crested Porcupine • Cotton-Top Tamarin • Domestic Duck • Deer Mouse • Dodo • Emerald Tree Boa • Eastern Lubber Grasshopper • Eastern Cottontail • European Rabbit • Flat-Backed Spider Tortoise • Flying Foxes • Gray Hawk • Giant Fishing Spider • Green Iguana • Gray Fox • Gray Ratsnake • Gossamer-Winged Butterflies • Grizzly Bear • Harpy Eagle • Howler Monkey • Jaguar • Kinkajou • Ladybug • Leptictidium • Mitchell's Rainforest Snail • Monarch Butterfly • Maned Wolf • Morpho Butterfly • Mullet Fish • Metridiochoerus • North American River Otter • New World Warbler • Ogygoptynx Owl • Orinoco Crocodile • Sumatran Orangutan • Pygmy Marmoset • Philippine Flying Lemur • Queen (Butterfly) • Red-Eyed Tree Frog • Rufous Hummingbird • Russian Tortoise • Ring-Tailed Lemur • Sloth • Spider Monkey • Spectacled Bear • Scarlet Macaw • South American Coati • South American Tapir • Sumatran Rhinoceros • Striped Skunk • Toucans • Tree Frogs • Tarantulas • White-Lipped Peccary • Woodpecker • White-Crowned Sparrow • Whirligig Beetles • White-Tailed Deer •
Caves
Andrewsarchus • Chinchilla • Creech Owl • Eurasian Cave Lions • Gray Fox • Glowworm • Little Brown Bat • Megabat • Ring-Tailed Lemur • Short-faced Bears • Toxodons • Titanis
Tall Grass
Cougar (Puma) • Clydesdale Horse • Coyote • Maned Wolf • Southern Ostrich • Yellow-Billed Cuckoo • White-Tailed Deer •
Mountain
Amazon River Dolphin • Australian Green Tree Frog • Andean Mountain Cat • Arabian Ostrich • Alpaca • Cougar (Puma) • Chinchilla • Condor • Coyote • Colorado Chipmunk • Gray-Bellied Mountain Rat • Golden Guernsey • Guanaco • Flamingo • Jaguar • Komodo Dragon • Llama • Mississippi Green Watersnake • Mountain Gorilla • Mountain Beaver • Prairie Falcon • Orinoco Crocodile • Turkey Vulture • Vicuña • Whistling Ducks • White-Tailed Deer • White-Tailed Eagle
River
Fiddler Crab • North American River Otter • Orinoco Crocodile • Platypus
Lake
Flamingo • Orinoco Crocodile • Seahorses •
Ocean
Amazonian Manatee • Blue Sea Star • Butterfly Ray • Bottlenose Dolphin • Blue-Ringed Octopus • Caribbean Reef Shark • Clownfish • Colossal Squid • Green Sea Turtle • Giant Pacific Octopuses • Great White Shark • Humpback Whale • Hawksbill Sea Turtle • Hammerhead Shark • Caribbean Hermit Crab • Lion's Mane Jellyfish • Leatherback Sea Turtle • Orca • Pygmy Seahorse • Squid • Sperm Whale • Shore Crabs • Seahorses • Starfish • Sea Otter • Sea Krait • Whale Shark
Polar regions
Adélie Penguin • Arctic Fox • Arctic Tern • Blue Whale • Beluga Whale • Chinstrap Penguin • Emperor Penguin • Eared Seal • Gentoo Penguin • Macaroni Penguin • Machairodus • Polar Bear • Laughing Gull • Reindeer • South Polar Skua • Snowy Owl • Walruses • Polar Bear •
Green Land
Puffin
Desert
Brontoscorpio Anglicus • Desert Kingsnake • Domestic Bactrian Camel • Camel • Fennec Fox • Giant Hairy Scorpion • Long-Eared Jerboa • Seagull • Sand Cat • Speckled Cape Tortoise •
Desert Cactus
Cape Porcupine • Coyote • Cougar (Puma) • Desert Iguana • Desert Cottontail • Gray Fox • Prairie Dog • Pampas Cat • Ring-Necked Pheasant • Roadrunner • White-Lipped Peccary •
Bottomland Hardwood
Goose • Red-Shouldered Hawk
African
African Elephant • African Bush Elephant • African Lion • African Cheetah • African Dwarf Frog • African Grey Hornbill • African Leopard • Aardvark • Aardwolf • African Helmeted Turtle • African Golden Wolf • African Wild Dog • African Wildcat • African Rock Python • American Cockroach • Ant • African Buffalo • African Clawless Otter • African Black Duck • African Hawk-Eagle • African Harrier-Hawk • Agama Agama (Agama Batu Kepala Merah) • African Spurred Tortoise • Arsinoitherium • Amebelodons • Black Rhinoceros • Botswanan Long-eared Bat • Banded Mongoose • Bohor Reedbuck • Black-backed Jackal • Black-Necked Spitting Cobra • Blue Wildebeest • Black-Tailed Prairie Dog • Common Warthog • Cattle Egret • Ostritch • Cape Bushbuck • Crested Porcupine • Common Chimpanzee • Chacma Baboon • Common Hippopotamus • Domestic Water Buffalo • Dragonfly • Egyptian Cobra • Ethiopian Wolf • Elk • Emperor Scorpion • Four-toed Hedgehog • Fire Skink • Greater Kudu • Gemsbok • Giant Eland • Grey Crowned Crane • Great Blue Turaco • Giant African Snail • Green Bee-Eater • Greater Flamingo • Grant's Zebra • Grey-Headed Bushshrike • Greylag Goose • Genet • Ground Pangolin • Gynanisa Maja • Glossina Morsitans Morsitans • Giant Teratorns • Honey Badger • Hippopotamus • Housefly • Hamerkop • Horned Gopher • Impala • Klipspringer • Kelenken • Ladybug • Lesser Egyptian Jerboa • Lygodactylus Williamsi • Meerkat • Mandrill • Morpho Butterfly • Martial Eagle • Macroeuphractus • Moeritheriums • Nile Crocodile • Nuttaliella • Oxpecker • Okapi • Olive Baboon • Plains Zebra • Pied Crow • Paraceratheriums • Quagga • Red-Crowned Crane • Ruppell's Vulture • Rock Hyrax • Rock Monitor Lizard • Reticulated Giraffe • Spotted Hyena • Sable Antelope • Senegal Bushbaby • Scrub Hare • Serval • Southern Red Bishop • Sclerophrys Regularis • Smith's Red Rock Hare • Scincus Scincus • Smilodon • Thomson's Gazelle • Tanzanian Red-Billed Hornbill • Trachylepis Striata • Trachylepis Sulcata • Trachylepis • Trachylepis Quinquetaeniata • Veiled Chameleon • Vervet Monkey • West African Giraffe • White-Backed Vulture • Wildebeest • Western Honey Bee • Western Yellow Wagtail • White-Necked Raven • White Rhinoceros • Yellow-Billed Stork • Yellow Baboon • Yellow Golden Mole • Zanzibar Red Colobus
African Rainforest
Okapi •
Island
Boobie Bird • Common Brown Lemur • Fossa • Giant Tortoise • Komodo Dragon • Mouse Lemur • Madagascan Flying Fox • Nile Crocodile • Phoenicopterus Flamingo • Ring-Tailed Lemur • Sifaka Lemur • Tomato Frog • Tenrecs
Snow Mountain
Giant Panda •
Bamboo Mountain
Giant Panda • Snow Leopard
Rocky Cave
North-Chinese Leopard
Forest
Dingo • Eastern Grey Kangaroo • Koala • Kookaburra • Megabat • Red Kangaroo • Short-Beaked Echidna