Green is the New Dry....

In the sense that since arrival, and many days beforehand, there has been no rain. Palo Verde looks like my Colorado home in the summer: green but on the edge of yellowing out from lack of rain and copious sunshine.

New ~2 year old C. similis.

Still green enough to eat!

This trip is short and simple -- trap iguanas, collect blood, collect parasites, and try out network analysis data collection protocol. Trapping comes first as the animals must be known as individuals to create the network.

I've spotted most of my known animals -- always a fear that they have absconded in my absence and a huge relief to see that was a false worry! However, there are a number of new animals that must be added to the network.

I won't join the marked animals until I live at least another year!

Lack of rain is detrimental to Palo Verde -- but behaviorally, iguanas are doing much the same as they also do -- up and active when the sun is out, and siesta during cloud cover. At least some things are predictable!