Big reptiles in public park - Guayaquil (Ecuador)

Reptiles / Lizard Iguania in Parque Seminario. (Jan.2006)
Shocking and Unbelievable. Big reptiles in public park.


Guayaquil - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil

Ecuador - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador

Iguania - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguania

Lizards - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizards

Map - http://tinyurl.com/3xu8jsb

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LIZARDS - are a very large and widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species,[1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria (reptiles with overlapping scales), which are neither sphenodonts (i.e., tuatara) nor snakes. While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the anguimorph lizards from which they evolved, the sphenodonts are the sister group to the squamates, the larger monophyletic group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes.
Lizards typically have limbs and external ears, while snakes lack both these characteristics. However, because they are defined negatively as excluding snakes, lizards have no unique distinguishing characteristic as a group. Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have a more primitive and solid diapsid skull. Many lizards can detach their tails to escape from predators, an act called autotomy, but this trait is not shared by all lizards. Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies as well as with pheromones. The adult length of species within the suborder ranges from a few centimetres for some chameleons and geckos to nearly three metres (9 feet, 6 inches) in the case of the largest living varanid lizard, the Komodo Dragon. Some extinct varanids reached great size. The extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached 17 metres, and the giant monitor Megalania prisca is estimated to have reached perhaps seven metres.


GUAYAQUIL - officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with a metro area population exceeding 3.3 million[citation needed] at the end of 2009, as well as that nation's main port. The city is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton.
Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil. Because of its location, the city is the center of Ecuador's business and manufacturing industries.


ECUADOR - (pronounced /ˈɛkwədɔr/ ( listen)), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador; pronounced [reˈpuβlika ðel ekwaˈðor], which literally translates to the Republic of the Equator) is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) west of the mainland.

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[xBeardedxDragonx1234]

Suprisingly tame

[jurajmitas]

@xBeardedxDragonx1234 I couldn't believe when I saw them for the first time :-)

[Appoldro]

Cute little dinosaurs!

[jurajmitas]

@Appoldro

...kind of :-)

[dantastic15]

I have been to this park! Guayaquil is fantastic!

[VanIsleBC]

they can devour your bonesssss.....