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	Desert iguana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
		The Desert iguana is a blunt medium-sized lizard.
		Desert iguanas are primarily herbivorous, eating buds, fruits and leaves of many annual and perennial plants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dipsosaurus (485 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		IGUANA [iguana], name for several large lizards of the family Iguanidae, found in tropical America and the Galapagos.
		The gray-brown desert iguana is marked with dark spots and stripes; it lives in burrows made by other animals.
		Iguanas are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Iguanidae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:iguana (353 words)

	Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Deserts, caused by wind patterns and climate, are often located in regions along both the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
		Deserts are composed of sand, but not the same sand as found on beaches, desert sand is larger and rounder.
		The Dipsosaurus dorsalis (desert iguana) is a common inhabitant of the Patagonia desert in Argentina.
	nhs.needham.k12.ma.us /cur/Bio96_97/P3/desert/desertjk.html (601 words)

	Mojave Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mojave Desert (Mojave is used for the desert while Mohave is used for the native people) occupies a significant portion of southern California and smaller parts of southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, and northwestern Arizona, in the United States.
		The Mojave Desert is bounded in part by the Tehachapi together with the San Gabriel and San Bernadino mountain ranges.
		The Mojave Desert receives less than 6 inches (150 mm) of rain a year and is generally between 3,000 and 6,000 feet (1,000 and 2,000 m) in elevation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mojave_Desert (1065 words)

	Desert Iguana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The desert iguana is light-colored: it ranges from a light-brown around its head to a grayish-white along the rest of its body.
		These iguanas shelter themselves in the rocks and scrub bushes of the desert to stay cool, but they can tolerate heat as high as 115 degrees F. Desert iguanas also use the burrows and holes made by other animals as protection from enemies, sometimes making a complex system of tunnels through the sand.
		The desert iguana is mainly a plant eater, feeding off flowers from the creosote bush as well as fruits, leaves, and seeds of other desert plants.
	animalexploration.tripod.com /iguana.html (273 words)

	Digimorph - Dipsosaurus dorsalis (desert iguana)
		Dipsosaurus dorsalis, the desert iguana, occurs in southeastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, western and south-central Arizona, eastern and southern Baja California, northwestern Mexico, and some of the Gulf of California islands.
		Desert iguanas live in the sandy flats and hummocks characteristic of the creosote woodlands of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts.
		Iguanids, the 'true iguanas', include eight genera (see also Ctenosaura pectinata, the Mexican spinytail iguana), and within these Dipsosaurus is generally thought to be near the base of the lineage.
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Dipsosaurus_dorsalis (524 words)

	Iguanas - Desert Iguanas??
		Spiney tail iguanas (fl iguanas)(native to southern mexico, and central america, are dark grey/fl with a spiney plated tail similar to that of the uromastyx) and desert iguanas are 2 completely different species with the desert iguana being native to Arizona and a few other parts of the south west.
		Desert Iguanas are also a protected species in some states so it is a good idea to check with your local game and fish office BEFORE buying one.
		a desert iguana, not being arborial, would probably be more at home with a large basking rock than a carpet covered shelf, tho the shelf may work it wont absorb and radiate heat like the desert he is built for would.
	www.repticzone.com /forums/Iguanas/messages/132798.html (586 words)

	The Living Desert - Desert Iguana
		Desert iguanas are considered a medium-sized lizard with a blunt head.
		The mature desert iguana is 10-16 inches long including their tail, which is up to 1 ½ times the length of the body.
		The desert iguana can be found in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts of S.E. California, southern Nevada, S.W. Utah, S-central Arizona, E. and S. Baja California, N.W. Mexico and some of the Gulf of California islands.
	www.livingdesert.org /animals/desert_iguana.asp (299 words)

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		The desert iguana is often found in the vicinity of creosote bushes, which provide food and shelter and the burrows of kangaroo rates, used by the iguanas to hide from predators.
		While wild chucks and desert iguanas have been found with some digesta still in their proximal colon, care must be taken that the gut isn't full as, during the prolonged period of cold temperatures, the gut activity slows to a stop, but decomposition of the food may occur.
		Both species, along with other desert species, should be considered species of special concern due to the continued development of desert areas for human habitation and business as well as the deleterious effects of recreational and other human noise pollution.
	www.anapsid.org /dichuck.html (2324 words)

	Southern California Camping - Field Guide to Reptiles
		The desert iguana is widely distributed throughout the Mojave and Colorado deserts below 1000 m (3300 ft) elevation (Stebbins 1954).
		Desert scrub, wash and succulent shrub habitats are used, as is alkalai scrub.
		The desert iguana uses burrows extensively and also climbs into shrubs for shelter from temperature extremes, solar radiation and predators.
	www.socalcamping.com /fieldguide/reptile/desertiguana.html (716 words)

	Desert Iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis)
		The range of the desert iguana is largely contained within the range of the creosote bush.
		Primarily herbivorous, the desert iguana crawls into the branches of creosote bushes and other shrubs to feed upon the leaves and flowers.
		Though desert iguanas seem to prefer open, relatively flat habitat, they rely heavily on the creosote bush in these areas for a number of needs.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/desert_iguana.html (384 words)

	Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
		Desert iguanas are tolerant of extremely high temperatures, remaining active in hot weather, although they may seek shelter in rodent burrows.
		The preferred habitat of the desert iguana in Utah is creosote bush desert.
		Desert iguanas are pale gray with brown patches or bars on their sides.
	dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov /rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=dipsdors (162 words)

	desert iguana
		Desert iguanas prefers a flat habitat with limited shrubbery, Creosite Bush, and sandy ground.
		The Desert Iguana is a wary, diurnal lizard that will climb into bushes seeking cooler areas in extreme heat, but it will remain active when temperatures are as high as 115 degrees F. When threatened, Dipsosaurus dorsalis will flee by running extremely fast on their hind legs only, which is nearly similar to Basciliscus spp.
		Also, a good idea for making your desert iguana accustom to their pseudo environment is to design an artificial burrow(s).
	users.ids.net /~equanah/html/body_desert_iguanas.html (831 words)

	Desert Iguana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Desert Iguana is a large, light colored lizard with a long tail.
		Desert Iguana Dipsosaurus dorsalis This large lizard loves to eat flowers, and will sometimes climb into low shrubs to feed.
		Desert Iguana(Dipsosaurus dorsalis), Iguanas eNature.com is a free searchable nature and wildlife database.
	www.reptileforums.com /results/iguana/desert-iguana.html (123 words)

	Desert Iguanas
		The desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is a medium-sized (4-5” SVL) iguanid lizard, native to desert regions of the southwestern United States and to desert and scrub regions of northwestern Mexico.
		Desert iguanas have achieved some fame among metabolic biologists because their preferred body temperature is one of the highest known for any vertebrate—from 100º to 108º Fahrenheit!
		Desert iguanas are seasonal animals, brumating during the cooler months (the length of brumation varies throughout their range) in shallow underground burrows.
	people.qualcomm.com /ntenny/dipsosaurus.html (1003 words)

	iguana on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Demografía y ecología de anidación de la iguana verde, Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae), en dos poblaciones explotadas en la Depresión Momposina, Colombia.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/i1/iguana.asp (638 words)

	chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus)
		A resident of southwestern deserts in the United States and Mexico, the chuckwalla is found in southeastern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, western Arizona, eastern Baja California, and northwestern Mexico.
		Strictly a rock dweller, the chuckwalla is found in rocky outcrops, lava flows, and rocky hillsides of the Great Basin, Mohave and Sonoran deserts.
		This herbivorous lizard emerges from hibernation in mid to late February, although it may be seen in rock crevices close to the surface on any warm winter day.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/chuckwalla.html (322 words)

	Desert National Wildlife Range Nevada
		In the Desert National Wildlife Range, you can explore natural arches, caves and deep canyons, enjoy the expansive solitude of rolling bajadas, search for blooming desert wildflowers or savor the company of Joshua trees.
		Sensitive, threatened and endangered species include the desert tortoise, the white bearpoppy, the banded Gila monster, and the delicate rock daisy.
		Lizards such as the desert iguana, chuckwalla and the southern desert horned lizard live here.
	www.nevadawilderness.org /southern/desertrg.htm (437 words)

	iguana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Desert Iguana is colored brown around the head.
		The other places he lives are in southern Nevada, western Arizona, and southern deserts.
		I have a lizard about that size but he doesn't look like a desert iguana.
	www-bu.beth.k12.pa.us /msnyder/iguana.htm (202 words)

	Welcome to McMartinVille (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This iguana was found in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, on 07 April 2000 around 0915 PDT.
		It has a regenerated tail (the original would have the pattern visible on the body, and would be much longer) from a previous encounter with a predator, and was fairly emaciated, having recently came out of hibernation.
		Desert iguanas are among the largest North American lizards.
	www.mcmartinville.com /chris/reptiles/trips/nevada/desertig.htm (179 words)

	Bassam Shakhashiri Lecture.wpd
		It was from experience that I accumlated beginning with my research on the physiology and behavior of reptiles on the desert of southern California that the label I would now write for the third point of the triangle began to emerge.
		As my wife, Ruth, and I studied how the Desert Iguana survived on this hot dry delta, we were startled one day by jobbers who parked their tank truck near us, sprinkled water on the desert for a few days, laid down a concrete slab on the wet soil, and built a house on it.
		While house-building on slabs poured onto desert sands alerted me to the question of praxis, it mainly was service to my wetland and my town that brought the third point to that napkin.
	scifun.chem.wisc.edu /GenChem/DeWittLecture.html (3084 words)

	Desert Iguana (DesertUSA)
		Mojave and Sonoran deserts of southeastern California, southern Nevada and western Arizona.
		The mature Desert Iguana is 10 to 16 inches long with a large, round body and a long tail.
		Adults will have a pink hue on the side of their belly during the breeding season, April and May. A clutch of 3 to 8 eggs is laid June and July, with the young appearing in August and September.
	www.desertusa.com /april97/du_desiguana.html (164 words)

	SDNHM - Desert Iguana
		The Desert Iguana ranges from the Mojave Desert regions of east-central California and southern Nevada to western Arizona and through the desert regions of the Baja California peninsula, Sonora, and Sinaloa in Mexico.
		This lizard lives in the expansive sandy flats and hummocks characteristic of the creosote woodlands of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
		Behavior: The Desert Iguana tolerates extreme heat better than other desert lizards, and is often seen perching on prominent spots such as large rocks or sand mounds.
	www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/herps/dips-dor.html (334 words)

	Reptiles Magazine - Guildelines
		Alberts, A. "Pheromonal self-recognition in desert iguanas." Copeia, 1: 229-232.
		"Conspecific discrimination by chemoreception in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis." Herpetologica, 47(1) 82-88.
		Krekorian, C. "Field and laboratory observations on chemoreception in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis." Journal of Herpetology, 23(3) 267-273.
	www.animalnetwork.com /reptiles/detail.aspx?aid=14880&cid=3705&search= (244 words)

	Terrestrial Animals and Plants of the Desert Tortoise Natural Area
		This inventory of the reptiles, mammals and birds of the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area is based on the lists prepared by Dr. Kristin H. Berry in 1973.
		Connor, M. and Kaur, J. (2004) Observations and Activities of the Naturalist at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area, Kern County, California: March 12 through June 7, 2004.
		Connor, M. and Kaur, J. (2005) Observations and Activities of the Naturalist at the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area, Kern County, California: March 16 through June 7, 2005.
	www.tortoise-tracks.org /dtna/inventory.html (392 words)

	Death-Valley.us - Desert iguana - Dipsosaurus dorsalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The desert iguana is widely distributed throughout the Mojave and Colorado deserts below 3300 ft elevation.
		Laboratory studies suggest that nest temperature may be a very important limiting factor at the higher elevation of this species range.
		This species is herbivorous, feeding on annual and perennial plants in a variety of habitats, but seemingly reaching greatest densities in habitats that support the greatest productivity of such plant species (sandy desert flats and washes).
	www.death-valley.us /article64.html (756 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mojave desert (NA1308) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Mojave is a "high desert" because it occurs largely at higher elevations, but the ecoregion as a whole ranges from below sea level to over 5,280 feet (1,600 m).
		Deserts have incredible, specialized plants, and the Mojave is no exception.
		Desert plants and communities are often very old and are highly sensitive to vehicles crushing them and disturbing soils.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1308.html (479 words)

	Desert Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
		Animals that live in the desert have adaptations to cope with the lack of water, the extreme temperatures, and the shortage of food.
		To avoid daytime heat, many desert animals are nocturnal; they burrow beneath the surface or hide in the shade during the day, emerging at night to eat.
		Bactrian Camels are two-humped camels from deserts and steppes of Asia.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /biomes/desert/desert.shtml (1270 words)

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