Yeah they're pretty good, cheeks are the best part. They're herbivores and eat primary leafy greens with some fruit and veggies mixed in, sometimes insects or small animals iirc but very rarely.
Are iguanas good pets, I saw a lizard person video that said they're pretty bad pets but they're by far the coolest looking lizards IMO and it's good that you don't have to feed them gross insects and stuff.
Most of the species that come from islands are good if you have the space. It's the mainland species like the green iguana and black spiny-tailed iguana make terrible pets.
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all squamates (snakes+lizards) probably evolved from a common ancestor with venomous saliva, and 'nonvenomous' squamate saliva retains some of that, often to the point of just being mildly itchy and anticoagulant (eg iguanas and constricting snakes) but occasionally dangerous to degree (eg some monitor lizards). Then some evolved venom again (vipers, elapids, rear-fanged colubrids, heloderma).
Are iguanas good for eating? What do they eat?
Cats are better. They're easier to get.
>What do they eat?
People.
Yeah they're pretty good, cheeks are the best part. They're herbivores and eat primary leafy greens with some fruit and veggies mixed in, sometimes insects or small animals iirc but very rarely.
Awesome. I had a Fantasy of making a restaurant in Good springs that sold iguana bits.
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Are iguanas good pets, I saw a lizard person video that said they're pretty bad pets but they're by far the coolest looking lizards IMO and it's good that you don't have to feed them gross insects and stuff.
Most of the species that come from islands are good if you have the space. It's the mainland species like the green iguana and black spiny-tailed iguana make terrible pets.
Green iguanas are terrible. Rock iguanas are excellent. Both are relatively high maintenance/space reptiles though
They're the shitbulls of the lizard world
>Are iguanas good pets
If you have to ask it is because you haven't tried it yet.
No, they're fucking horrible. Whoever decided to market them as baby's first lizard pet was only trying to troll everyone.
Really? I got bitten by my pet iguana once and it itched like hell, but nothing else happened. It may have helped that he was young.
Basically all reptiles have a certain amount of "venom" which really is just bacteria that makes you itch
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all squamates (snakes+lizards) probably evolved from a common ancestor with venomous saliva, and 'nonvenomous' squamate saliva retains some of that, often to the point of just being mildly itchy and anticoagulant (eg iguanas and constricting snakes) but occasionally dangerous to degree (eg some monitor lizards). Then some evolved venom again (vipers, elapids, rear-fanged colubrids, heloderma).
>it itched like hell
Yep, that's the thing. The venom glands are vestigial in iguanas, but they still have them.
Watch: https://youtu.be/IHX8rJ7cZi4?t=748
Plants are tough prey.
look at this little fella