Zoos with the rarest / most endangered iguanas

Yes, I know what you mean @Jurek7 , it could be just a convenient arrangement for many zoos rather than an intentional planned set-up.

Thanks for sharing ! I'll check it out and see if I can find some shots.

 

Never been to Colchester but having seen photos in the gallery I'm not very keen on the lavish use of fake rocks, fake temples and tacky aesthetics.

That said, I think this enclosure for rhinoceros iguana looks brilliant and really does kind of resemble the xeric scrubland and limestone topography of the species in its natural habitat in Hispaniola:




Photo credit to @Rafiaan, @DesertRhino150 and @Richie Hell.

 

Really nice rhinoceros iguana enclosure (though not too sure about the "termite hills") at Pheonix zoo in the USA:







Photo credits to @Ituri , @geomorph and @snowleopard.

 

I was interested of there were any so I checked the gallery, but no photos of the rhinoceros iguanas in the Biochron. I checked my personal photo collection too, but also negative.

The Biochron of the earliest 1990's was a wonderfull place with many models of dinosaurs and company (I remember Protoceratops with hatching young, Archaeopteryx, pterosaurs, taxidermed hawks on a dinosaur corpse and weasel-like mammals around a sleeping giant lizard-like reptile), aquaria with a group of lemon sharks a star attraction, a reconstructed Carboniferous forest, a butterfly garden and a section with nocturnal animals.

 

Exuma Island Iguanas and Bahamian Iguana are the same species. The Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas are no longer at the aquarium, that exhibit is now used for the Bahamians.

 

Thats a shame but thank you for looking for photos.

I don't normally like dinosaur sculptures in zoos but it sounds quite interesting from an educational perspective to display these kinds of models alongside reptiles like iguanas.

 

Yes, I know, I just wrote the label as that was how the photograph in the gallery was titled.

That is a shame, the Grand Cayman blue iguana is significantly more endangered than the Exuma Island iguana.

 

Luckily a lot of other zoos hold Grand Cayman Blues, as well.

 

I did find (and uploaded) a combined file of three photographs of the Biochron, including one with a Pteranodon and living crocodiles.

 

Quite interesting displays by the looks of it , thanks for sharing @AWP!

 

Yes, seems to be fairly well represented in US zoos which is excellent.

 

@birdsandbats do you have a favourite iguana species ?

 

The Columbus zoo apparently have an interesting mixed iguana species exhibit with spiny tailed and blue iguanas:


Indoor terrarium / mixed-species exhibit at Indianopolis zoo, USA, with blue iguana, radiated tortoise, plated lizard, chuckwalla, Gouldian finch, agama, quail and shaft tail finch:


Indoor terrarium for blue iguana, Cuban iguana, saffron finch, ruddy dove and Mexican house finch at Prague zoo, Czech Republic:



Blue iguana in large mixed species enclosure with terrapins at the Prague zoo, Czech Republic:

Blue iguana and terrarium at Riverbanks zoo, USA:


Blue iguana indoor terrarium and sleeping iguana at the Houston zoo, USA:

Excellent outdoor enclosure for blue iguana at Houston zoo:

Sizeable indoor terrarium and decent signage for blue iguana detailing conservation efforts , Milwaukee county zoo, USA:

Great looking outdoor enclosure for blue iguana and yellow footed tortoise at the Sedgwick county zoo, USA:



Blue iguana at Fort Worth zoo, USA:

Blue iguana at the National zoo, USA:

Blue iguana at the Central Florida zoo:

Blue iguana at the Bronx zoo, USA:


Photo credits to @TinoPup, @Zoological Point , @RatioTile @geomorph, @snowleopard , @cassaretoaleash, @carlos55, @ronnienl , @Moebelle, @Maguari and @LaughingDove.

 

Cuban iguanas at zoos around the world.

Cuban iguana at Antwerp zoo, Belgium:





Cuban ground iguana and enclosure at Prague zoo, Czech Republic:





Cuban iguana and enclosure at Pairi Daiza, Belgium:


Cuban iguana in its native land, Zoologico Nacional de Cuba , Cuba:

Cuban iguana and enclosure at Busch gardens zoo, USA:


Cuban iguana and enclosure at Milwaukee county zoo:

Cuban iguana enclosure at San Diego zoo, USA:

Cuban iguana at Wroclaw zoo, Poland:

Cuban iguana at San Antonio zoo, USA:

Cuban iguanas at Poznan zoo, Poland:



Photo credits to @KevinB , @vogelcommando , @Arek , @jbnbsn99, @Peter , @Jaguar, @geomorph , @JigerofLemuria , @lintworm , @carlos55 and @Toddy.

 

Utila Island Iguanas at zoos around the world.

Utila Island iguana and enclosure at Jersey zoo, UK:

Utila Island iguana at ZSL London zoo:




Utila Island iguana enclosure at Saint Louis zoo, USA:

Utila Island iguanas and enclosure at Birmingham nature center, USA:


Utila Island iguanas at Bristol zoo, UK:



Utila Island iguana at Frankfurt zoo, Germany:

Utila Island iguana at Barcelona zoo, Spain:

Utila Island iguana at Rotterdam zoo, the Netherlands:

Utila Island iguana at Brookfield zoo, USA:

Utila Island iguana at Virginia zoo, USA:


Photo credits to @JerseyLotte, @AdrianW1963 , @Tim May , @TinoPup , @Zoological Point , @Daubentoniidae , @Nikola Chavkosk , @vogelcommando , @gulogulogulo , @snowleopard , @mhale , @demonmoth and @Brum.

 

If they count I love chuckwallas.

 

Well I guess they are Iguanids so I don't see why they wouldn't count.

 

Really excellent looking terrarium and mixed-species enclosure (also houses Haitian ameiva and Cuban grassquits) for rhinoceros iguanas at Tiergarten Schonbrunn, Germany:




Photo credits to @lintworm and @robreintjes.

 

Great iguana themed artwork / stone sculpture at Pairi Daiza zoo, Belgium:


Photo credit to @KevinB.

 

Stone Zoo keeps at least one Jamaican Iguana in the Caribbean Coast aviary.