Monday Mystery Answered
February 24, 2019
On Monday I wrote:
Near Pigeon Park in Old San Juan, came across this medium-sized lizard. Can anyone help with an ID?
(Same photo, wider angle below.) We saw all sorts of lizards of various sizes during our stay.
Julie McCall replied:
Green iguana (iguana iguana). I had two of those, too.
I believe it's an introduced species in PR, much like the ones that can be found in Florida - escapees that then established a feral population because the climate is suitable.
"Ginnybean61" wrote:
Iguanas are dubbed the Puerto Rican squirrels. I just Googled them and see that people hunt them and eat them ...
(Thanks, Ginny. A practical approach to invasive species. I just read where they are also called tree chickens there. Makin' me hungry.)