Common Desert Iguana

• It stays active at ground temperatures above forty-five degrees, when every other desert lizard has already taken cover: it is one of the most heat-tolerant reptiles in North America.
• It depends on the creosote bush, whose flowers, leaves and shoots it eats, and its distribution matches that of the plant almost exactly across the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
• It occupies the abandoned burrows of kangaroo rats and desert tortoises rather than digging its own, which makes it dependent on those other animals.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Sandy deserts with creosote scrub of the south-western United States and north-western Mexico

Sexual maturity

2.7 years

Gestation / incubation

75 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

5 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipsosaurus_dorsalis

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.