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Marine iguana (Reptile: Amblyrhynchus cristatus), Galapagos, Ecuador

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Wayne Wurtsbaugh



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A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) basks on a rock, likely to warm itself and promote digestion of the algae it consumed in the ocean.



Photo: Galapagos Islands, September 1982
· Date: October 21, 2006 · Views: 16,121 · Filesize: 38.3kb, 238.5kb · Dimensions: 720 x 482 ·
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Keywords: reptile thermoregulation marine iguana Pacific Ocean post-feeding thermotaxis

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