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Green iguanas have a white photosensory organ on the top of their heads called the parietal eye. This “eye” has only a rudimentary retina and lens and cannot form images, but is sensitive to changes in light and dark and can detect movement. 🔎

The green iguana is a large lizard and is the largest species in the iguana family. On islands such as Bonaire, Curaçao, Aruba, and Grenada, a green iguana’s colour may vary from green to lavender, black, and even reddish brown. 🔎

Even in the middle of summer, snow settles here at the Moosbach lake in Tirol. 🔎

The troupial, national bird of Venezuela, inhabits dry areas like woodlands, gallery forest, dry scrub, plains, and open savanna, where they forage for insects, a wide variety of fruit, small birds and eggs. 🔎