They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Islands .< ref name =" wildblue "> Though the species is not native to Martinique, a small wild colony of released or escaped Green Iguanas endures at historic Fort Saint Louis.

Green Iguanas are diurnal, arboreal, and are often found near water.

Despite their name, Green Iguanas can come in different colors.

Green Iguanas from the western region of Costa Rica are red and animals of the northern ranges, such as Mexico, appear orange.

Juvenile Green Iguanas from El Salvador are often bright blue as babies, however they lose this color as they get older.

Green Iguanas have excellent vision, enabling them to detect shapes and motions at long distances.

As Green Iguanas have only a few Rod cells, they have poor vision in low-light conditions.

Green Iguanas have a white photosensory organ on the top of their heads called the parietal eye ( also called third eye, pineal eye or pineal gland ), in contrast to most other lizards, which have lost it.

Green Iguanas have very sharp teeth that are capable of shredding leaves and even human skin.

Primarily herbivorous, Green Iguanas are presented with a special problem for osmoregulation ; plant matter contains more potassium and as it has less nutritional content per gram, more must be eaten to meet metabolic needs.

As Green Iguanas are not capable of creating liquid urine more concentrated than their bodily fluids, like birds they excrete nitrogenous wastes as urate salts through a salt gland.

Male Green Iguanas have highly developed femoral pores on the underside of their thighs which secrete a scent ( females have femoral pores, but they are smaller in comparison to those of the males ).

Green Iguanas are oviparous with females laying clutches of 20 to 71 eggs once per year during a synchronized nesting period.

When frightened by a predator, Green Iguanas will attempt to flee, and if near a body of water, they dive into it and swim away.

Green Iguanas use " head bobs " and dewlaps in a variety of ways in social interactions, such as greeting another iguana or to court a possible mate.

Green Iguanas are preyed upon by hawks and their fear of hawks is exploited as a ploy to catch them in the wild.

Green Iguanas are primarily herbivores, feeding on leaves, flowers, fruit, and growing shoots of upwards of 100 different species of plant.

Although they will consume a wide variety of foods if offered, Green Iguanas are naturally herbivorous and require a precise ratio of minerals ( 2 to 1 calcium to phosphorus ) in their diet.

There is some debate as to whether captive Green Iguanas should be fed animal protein.

Wild adult Green Iguanas have been observed eating bird's eggs.

On the other side of the argument is that Green Iguanas at the Miami Seaquarium in Key Biscayne, Florida, have been observed eating dead fish and individuals kept in captivity have been known to eat mice without any ill effects.

Although, in captivity, Green Iguanas will eat meat if presented with it, excessive consumption of animal protein results in severe kidney problems and possible premature death.

Green Iguanas will thrive only in temperatures of to and must have appropriate sources of UVB and UVA lighting, or else their bodies cannot produce vitamin D that promotes calcium absorption, which can result in a metabolic bone disease that can be fatal.

Due to the potential impact of an introduced species on Hawaii's ecosystem, the state has strict regulations regarding the import and possession of Green Iguanas ; violators can spend three years in jail and be fined up to $ 200, 000.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

The structure " Fiddler's Green " from George A. Romero's 2005 film Land of the Dead might be an arcology.

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

* In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain returns from his battle with the Green Knight wearing the green girdle " obliquely, like a baldric, bound at his side ,/ below his left shoulder, laced in a knot, in betokening the blame he had borne for his fault.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, from Bowling Green at the south, to Inwood at the northern tip of the island.

A view up Broadway from Bowling Green, with the Chrysler Building visible in the background

The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).

The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park.

Two new strips were also added, Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green and London B412.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

Its design period was protracted, with various development problems exacerbated by the fact that designers lacked information on the actual size and weight of the proposed boosted-fission warhead Green Bamboo, or its likely thermonuclear successor derived from the Granite series.

Jen responds to these feelings, and her desire to not submit to a teacher, by turning away from Li Mu Bai when she jumps in the lake after the Green Destiny.

For a certain class of Green functions coming from solutions of integral equations, Schmidt had shown that a property analogous to the Arzelà – Ascoli theorem held in the sense of mean convergence — or convergence in what would later be dubbed a Hilbert space.

* ' Napoleon and the Spectre ', taken from the manuscript of the Green Dwarf

After over a dozen more subpar seasons, in 1981 the Cubs hired GM Dallas Green from Philadelphia to turn around the franchise.