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Galapagos Wildlife vol. 3: Marine Iguanas
Long ago I remember seeing a National Geographic film with footage of iguanas swimming underwater and I almost couldn’t believe it. Who knew I’d be photographing them years later?
Existing only in the Galapagos and nowhere else, Marine Iguanas are one of 
those bizarre adaptions that made Darwin start wondering how all this weirdness could have come about. One of the strangest things about these guys is that there is an almost constant rain of squirting coming from them that I didn’t understand at first. Turns out they are regularly expelling the incredible salt built up in their bodies from nasal glands–such is life in and around the ocean. And I just thought they were spitting at me…
There are also more ‘traditional’ (if you can say that about iguanas) land iguanas in the Galapagos, and I have some good photos of them, but first–the swimmers!
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