Iguanas in the Bahamas are getting a sweet tooth because of grapes fed to them ‘ecotourists’
Scientists say the sweet snacks are raising the rock iguanas’ blood sugar and they don’t yet know the consequences this could have for this endangered species.
Every day, dozens of speedboats land on the white sandy beaches of the Exumas Islands. The visitors attract the Cyclura cychlura or Northern Bahamian rock iguanas, which rush to the boats with the expectation of being fed grapes from the end of skewers.
These reptiles are classified, depending on the subspecies, from “vulnerable to “endangered”.
A team of American researchers has studied the effect of this repeated and unnatural feeding on
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