Amazin' Amazon Mystery Animals

If the clues in the poem - 'stalagmites and latex,' ectothermic (cold-blooded), bumpy and scaly, prehistoric-looking, fruit-eating and 'kept as a pet' - didn't give the iguana away, you might have noticed the SHAPE of the poem. It was put on the page to resemble an iguana clinging to a tree trunk. When a poem is put on a page in such a way that it represents an image, it's called a concrete poem. Iguanas, by the way, are excellent climbers. They have to be since they spend part of their time on the forest floor and part of it way up high in the canopy.

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