Species:
Conolophus pallidus
Santa Fe Land Iguana
April, 1994
Santa Fe Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

This potato sack of a lizard looked like it was too obese to move, but when a much smaller iguana stumbled into its territory, it chased the intruder off in an instant.
May 2, 2012
Santa Fe Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador



On our second trip to the Galápages, we visited Santa Fe in the late afternoon, and both of the iguanas we came across seem to have called it quits for the day.


