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The Diet of a Generalized Folivore: Iguana iguana in Panama

Acknowledgements and References

AS Rand, BA Dugan, H Monteza and D Vianda. Journal of Herpetology 24(2):211-214, 1990

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Epifanio and Jona Aizprua and Cesar Abrego for their help in capturing iguanas, and B. Bock, N. Garwood, G. Burghardt, J. lverson, and D. Werner for their help in preparing this manuscript. The plant survey and stomach contents identifications were supported by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Exxon Assistantships to H. Monteza and D. Vianda. Field work by B. Dugan was supported in part by NSF grants BNS 77-11344, BNS 75-02333 and BNS 78-14196 to G. Burghardt.

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