Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Blue-Pale Blue-Green

Yesterday's Fight Club was just the elimination round for today's excitement. 

Are female iguanas territorial? Possibly, though it needs a few caveats. About what, and when, and against whom is an iguana territorial?

Last night our star of the show, WOG, slept somewhere mysterious and unknown, closer to the front of the OTS office. In this way she could wake up and face her nemisis, the iguana formerly known as UM (unmarked). 

WOG began the day bobbing at all iguanas on the office roof (3) and I decided they had to be caught and marked. After I released the first named Brown-Red-Green, the OTS cook called for me to hurriedly bring the camera. WOG and another UM were fighting, and this was no skirmish. Full, open mouths, bite holds behind the shoulders, croc rolls, and spinning in the dirt for about 10 minutes. Finally the UM spun off to one side instead of around and around, and lo, WOG declared the winner! 

That the loser was a UM meant I still hadn't caught WOG's trouble, so back to trapping. Didn't take long and BPbG is a known iguana. All this before lunch.

The most important question of all this commotion is a simple WHY? BPbG is not near WOG's hide, her pirmary home area/territory. Why is BPbG so important? Is WOG making sure no one challenges her area? Is she letting all know that she is not to be triffled with? What fitness advantages does all her boldness give her compared to more reticent iguanas?

This could work for me.

Yes, it's a young UM -- in OBPb's hide. That will not last. 

WKY

White-Black-Yellow, one of many iguanas never observed fighting.