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IGUANA  •  VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3  •  SEPTEMBER 2006 177TABLE OF CONTENTS

IRCF
International Reptile Conservation Foundation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

F E A T U R E  A R T I C L E S
Conservation of the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Ariano-Sánchez 178
The Conservation of Thorn Scrub and Dry Forest Habitat in the Motagua Valley, Guatemala: 

Promoting the Protection of a Unique Ecoregion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Nájera Acevedo 184
Soaking Wet in a Fijian Dry Forest  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter S. Harlow and Suzi Morrison 192
The Anoles of Coconut Island, Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander J. Muensch, Penny D. Leininger, 

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dusty E. Werth, Angela M. Fawks, and Sydney M. Thomas 198
Cannibalism in an Introduced Population of Cyclura nubila nubila

on Isla Magueyes, Puerto Rico  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Néstor F. Pérez-Buitrago, A.O. Álvarez, and Miguel A. García 206

H U S B A N D R Y
Emerald Gems (Corallus caninus): Captive Husbandry and Propagation. Part III: Propagation  . . . . . . . . Joseph M. Polanco 209
Ex-Situ: Notes on Reproduction and Captive Husbandry of the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard 

(Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas C. Owens 212

T R A V E L O G U E
Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Pieces of America in the far Pacific  . . . . . . . . Gad Perry 216

H I S T O R I C A L  P E R S P E C T I V E S
Life Habits of Phrynosoma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles L. Edwards 224
A Horned Lizard at a High Altitude  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T.D.A. Cockerell 225
A Note on Distinction of the Sexes in Phrynosoma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.M. Winton 226
An Examination of Blood-ejecting Horned Lizards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.M. Winton 226
A Preliminary Note on the Food Habits and Distribution of the Texas Horned Lizards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W.M. Winton 228
The Urine of the Horned Lizard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A.O. Weese 229

C O M M E N T A R Y
Crocodiles and Alligators Are Very Different  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Whitfield Gibbons 230

B O O K  R E V I E W
Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards by Daniel D. Beck  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AJ Gutman 231

CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
NEWSBRIEFS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
IRCF ON THE MOVE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
EDITORIAL INFORMATION  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

A Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta) at ZooDom (Parque Zoológico Nacional, the National Zoo of the Dominican Republic). When basking,
lizards often sprawl to get as much surface in contact with the warm substrate as possible. The considerable volume and relatively limited surface
through which heat can be absorbed result in high thermal inertia for especially the larger species. Consequently, iguanas and other lizards of com-
parable body sizes do everything they can to acquire heat from all possible sources.

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