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I.I.S. Board of Directors
Joseph Wasilewski, President
Homestead, FL

Joseph Burgess, Vice-president
Jacksonville, FL

A.C. Echternacht, Ph.D., Treasurer
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

AJ Gutman, Executive Secretary and 
Associate Editor of IGUANA
West Hartford, CT

John & Sandy Binns, Directors, Associate Editors
of IGUANA and Internet Operations
International Reptile Conservation Foundation,
San Jose, CA

Gunther Köhler, Ph.D. and Elke Köhler,
Directors
Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Senckenberg & Herpeton, Frankfurt, Germany

Robert Powell, Ph.D., Director and Editor of
IGUANA
Avila University, Kansas City, MO

I.I.S. Editorial/Advisory Board
Allison C. Alberts, Ph.D.
IUCN/SSC Iguana Specialist Group and
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA

John Bendon, Illustrator for IGUANA
Bath, England

Gordon M. Burghardt, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Frederic J. Burton
Blue Iguana Recovery Program, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands

Jorge Ferrari
Organización de Rescate y Protección de Reptiles
y Anfibios, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Matthias Goetz, Dipl.-Biol.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, 
British Isles

Alexander Gutsche, Dipl.-Biol.
Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

Richard Hudson
International Iguana Foundation and 
Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, TX

John B. Iverson, Ph.D.
Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Chuck Knapp
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Michael Ripca, Managing Editor of IGUANA
Leaping Lizards Graphic Design, Atco, NJ

Thomas Wiewandt, Ph.D.
Wild Horizons, Tucson, AZ

Founder
Robert W. Ehrig
Big Pine Key, FL

Statement of Purpose
The International Iguana Society, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the biological diversity of iguanas.
We believe that the best way to protect iguanas and other native plants and animals is to preserve natural habitats and to encour-
age development of sustainable economies compatible with the maintenance of biodiversity. To this end, we will: (1) engage in
active conservation, initiating, assisting, and funding conservation efforts in cooperation with U.S. and international governmen-
tal and private agencies; (2) promote educational efforts related to the preservation of biodiversity; (3) build connections between
individuals and the academic, zoo, and conservation communities, providing conduits for education and for involving the general
public in efforts to preserve endangered species; and (4) encourage the dissemination and exchange of information on the ecology,
population biology, behavior, captive husbandry, taxonomy, and evolution of iguanas.

Membership Information
Iguana, the Journal of The International Iguana Society, is distributed quarterly to members and member organizations.
Annual dues:
Individual U.S. and Canadian Membership  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25.00
Individual Foreign Membership  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
U.S. and Canadian Organizational Membership*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
Foreign Organizational Membership*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $45.00

(*receives double copies of Iguana) 
Additional copies are available at a cost of $6.00 including postage. 

JOIN ON-LINE AT:  www.IguanaSociety.org

Membership questions? Call AJ at 860-236-8203, or write to: The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele
Road, West Hartford, CT 06119

Solicitations
Members of the I.I.S. are encouraged to contribute articles, letters to the Editor, news items, and announcements for publication
in IGUANA. General articles can deal with any aspect of iguana biology, including conservation, behavior, ecology, physiology,
systematics, or husbandry. Submission of photographs to accompany articles is encouraged.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail (send to ctenosaura@cyclura.com). For any contribution, please include your name,
address, phone number, and e-mail address. Authors of one page or more of print will receive a free copy of the journal in which
their contribution appears and will receive a PDF file of their article for distribution.

Advertising Policy of IGUANA
We advertise only non-living products (except feeder insects). All products have been examined and been found to be high quality
and fairly priced. Contact Sandy Binns, Advertising Director, at sandy@cyclura.com or 3010 Magnum Drive, San Jose, CA 95135.

IGUANA Copyright ©2004 by The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119 USA. ISSN # 1098-6324. The contents of IGUANA, excluding Research Articles, Research Updates, and reprinted articles,
may be reproduced for inclusion in the newsletters of other herpetological societies, provided the material is reproduced without change and with appropriate credits, and a copy of the publication is sent to The International Iguana Society.
Occasional exceptions may be made to this policy.

Editors’ Remarks
Although the editorial board has traditionally used this space to comment collectively, two of us are mak-
ing an exception on this occasion in order to acknowledge all that AJ Gutman, the third member of the
board, does for the IIS. In addition to her uncanny aptitude for finding errors large and small in articles
submitted to IGUANA, AJ often serves as the personification of the IIS. When prospective or current
members correspond with the IIS, AJ is the person with whom they communicate. Both the IIS Board
and the editorial board often speak of AJ as the “glue that holds us together.”

AJ also brings considerable expertise to the myriad tasks we set before her. She is a one-person res-
cue operation for iguanas and other reptiles (see her profile in the Iguana Times 9(4):87–90 and her com-
ments on iguana rescue in IGUANA 10(4):121–126). Having acquired her knowledge and skills through
trial and error and by accumulating very carefully the selected advice of so-called “experts,” AJ often con-
tributes insightful perspectives on issues relevant to husbandry — some of which even experienced
fanciers often overlook. As both an ardent iguanaphile and perspicacious editor, she brings to the Society
and to the journal an attention to detail without which we would be much less able to effectively address
the Society’s goals or produce a journal of increasingly higher quality. Thank you, AJ.

Bob Powell and John Binns

Editorial Note.—The husbandry feature in the previous issue (IGUANA 11(2):114–118) included a par-
enthetical phrase suggesting that “a pry-bar is standard collecting gear when hunting Chuckwallas.” That
phrase, added during review, was meant to say that “a pry-bar once was standard collecting gear …” The
author of the article, Brian Aucone, noted that he would never advocate the destruction of habitat by
breaking apart rocks with a pry bar in order to collect a Chuckwalla from the wild. The editors concur.


