Though they live the overwhelming amount of their time on the
sea-shore rocks, the females venture onto sandy beaches in March or
April when they excavate a burrow up to a metre long at the end
of which she lays her eggs. There are up to four elongated eggs that
have leathery rather than hard shells that take 3-4 months to
incubate. Like all young of
wild animals, the young are very vulnerable to predation being only
about 10cm long at hatching. Predators are lurking on land and also
in the sea, once grown large and mature however, marine iguanas have
little to fear on land and relatively little to fear in the sea. It
is the abundance or lack of food that has the greatest impact on
these animals. Picture courtesy
Expedition Trips |
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