Kilika cycle

Among the fifty thousand ring-tailed iguanas on the Islands of the Caribbean, keeled cicluri (lat. Cyclura carinata) is the smallest. Their population is gradually on the brink of extinction, settled on several dozen small Islands and coral reefs Turks and Caicos Islands within the Bahamian archipelago.





Its name keeled cyclery was an unusual, triangular scales, dense rows covering their torso. The coloring of these iguanas depends on their place of residence: on some Islands, you can see ceclor with red tails, others with blue stripes on the back.





Unlike other ring-tailed iguanas, the neck keeled cicluri flaunts a high ridge, giving it an aggressive look.





Small, growing up to 77 cm keeled cicluri prefer vegetarian food: their diet includes leaves, flowers and fruits of about sixty species of plants. Occasionally reptiles replenish her protein in the form of small insects, spiders, molluscs and birds ' eggs.





Keeled cicluri the daytime. Day they are busy finding food, bask in the sun, and at night hiding under stones or in the cool shallow burrows, which they dig in the sand.





Sandy beaches is an important component of life ring-tailed iguanas. In June the female keeled cicluri buries in warm sand, laying two to nine eggs, which jealously guards in a few weeks. Three months later on light there small grayish-brown iguanas. Males keeled ceclor are much larger than females and weigh almost twice their girlfriends.

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