The mating process between marine iguanas must be violent. The female experiences excruciating agony during the insemination process. And it seems sense that ...

Males defend mating territories during the three-month annual breeding season. Females lay one to six eggs in burrows dug 30 to 80 cm deep. The eggs are laid in ...

Reproduction in the marine iguana begins during the last part of the cold and dry season, with breeding from December to March and nesting from January to ... Appearance · Behavior · Conservation

Breeding occurs at different times on different islands, but generally individuals breed once every two years. Mating season is January through April, depending ...

The breeding and non-breeding distributions of male and female marine iguanas,Amblyrhynchus cristatus, and their mating behaviour were analysed.

Female marine iguanas reach sexual maturity at the age of 3–5 years and males reach sexual maturity at the age of 6–8 years. Reproduction. Galapagos marine ...

The mating readiness of females was well synchronized to only 24 days in Jan. Females moved daily to the intertidal zone to forage and showed high fidelity to ...

Courtship and copulation are described. Females normally copulated only once and only with territorial males. Breeding success of territorial males varied ...

Males defend mating territories for up to 3 months during the annual breeding season and females lay one to six eggs in burrows dug 30-80 cm deep in sand or ...