A few nice animal control images I found:
iguana
Image by doc(q)man
When we were in P.R. the last time, 11 years ago, iguana's were totally unknown here. Now the island is crawling with them: large and small, all shapes and colors. I even saw a giant old grey one through my binoculars in the trees way off that must have been at least 6, 7 feet long from head to the end of the tail.
Some years ago people brought them over from Panama as pets but let them go once they grew too big for keeping around the home. They thrived on this tropical island with its abundance of fruit(trees) and its lack of natural enemies for them. In Panama and other central American countries people eat them (calling them 'chicken of the trees') and thus keep their numbers under control but Puerto Ricans don't fancy them on their dinner table.
The result is that they are everywhere and are starting to form a plague for everyone with fruit trees in their yard (and that means most people...)
mango eating iguana
Image by doc(q)man
When we were in P.R. the last time, 11 years ago, iguana's were totally unknown here. Now the island is crawling with them: large and small, all shapes and colors. I even saw a giant old grey one through my binoculars in the trees way off that must have been at least 6, 7 feet long from head to the end of the tail.
Some years ago people brought them over from Panama as pets but let them go once they grew too big for keeping around the home. They thrived on this tropical island with its abundance of fruit(trees) and its lack of natural enemies for them. In Panama and other central American countries people eat them (calling them 'chicken of the trees') and thus keep their numbers under control but Puerto Ricans don't fancy them on their dinner table.
The result is that they are everywhere and are starting to form a plague for everyone with fruit trees in their yard (and that means most people...)
