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You may notice that this green iguana is not in fact green! She came to The Living Rainforest after being a pet for a number of years. It is common in the pet trade to selectively breed individuals with more desirable traits, and artificially create different colour morphs. This can cause issues within the captive population of the species, as it often involves in-breeding.
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana. Usually, this animal is simply called the iguana. The green iguana ranges over a large geographic area; it is native from southern Brazil and Paraguay as far north as Mexico, and has been introduced from South America to Puerto Rico and is very common throughout the island, where it is colloquially known as gallina de palo ("bamboo chicken" or "chicken of the tree") and considered an invasive species; in the United States, feral populations also exist in South Florida (including the Florida Keys), Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Green iguanas have also successfully colonised the island of Anguilla, arriving on the island in 1995 after rafting across the Caribbean from Guadeloupe, where they were introduced.
A herbivore, it has adapted significantly with regard to locomotion and osmoregulation (the maintenance of constant osmotic pressure in the fluids of an organism by the control of water and salt concentrations) as a result of its diet. It grows to 1.5 m in length from head to tail, although a few specimens have grown more than 2 m with bodyweights upward of 9.1 kg.
This animal is a resident of The Living Rainforest which is an indoor greenhouse tropical rainforest that is located in Hampstead Norreys in Berkshire, England. It is an ecological centre, educational centre and visitor attraction consisting of three glasshouses, operated and run by the Trust for Sustainable Living. The glasshouses are named Amazonica, Lowlands and Small Islands respectively.
The Living Rainforest has been accredited by the Council for Learning Outside of the Classroom and awarded the LOtC Quality Badge. Each year around 25,000 children visit the Living Rainforest as part of their school's curriculum. It is open 7-days a week from 09:30 to 16:00.
It's not to often that I get to use the 100mm macro lens so I'm glad I put it to use. These flower shots have turned out to be a lot of fun so I will be back to the gardens soon.
Shot for Smile on Saturday, theme "Selective Colour".
This is a picture from the archives but adapted to today's theme. It was not easy... I used Lightroom and removed all colours in the "saturation" mode. After that I upped the colour of the wig, which also lit up other elements in the picture. These I treated again with the Adjustment Brush. Luckily it is a Friday evening and I had all the time in the world!
Happy SoS everybody.
Eagle eye focused in a closeup portrait.
Hope everyone has a great weekend out there and thanks for stopping in my friends!
Photo taken from Hwy 4 above Sprout Lake in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. This helicopter is recovering trees that have been cut and bringing them down to the lake below. Most of the area forests have been harvested, then re-planted like the trees in the background.
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First of all, my thanks to these fine gentlemen - AcidSulfurik, Annamir and Buyie for their hospitality and friendliness. My gratitude to them for spending time with me!
Well, if you didn't know, this is Darul Quran's Mosque - a beautiful mosque, flanked by an equally beautiful surroundings! If you're wondering about the title, the sun was blocked by patches of clouds and hence, it shines on certain areas of the surroundings - in this case the mosque :)
Tech Specs: A little DRI, a little tone mapped HDR and a little vertorama to spice things up. Off course, it wouldn't be perfect without the tasty Hoya ND400 filter :D
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spider going in for a meal... needed to get a quick pic today as i had some stuff going on this evening... catch up with y'all tomorrow ;-)
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