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chance
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Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:44 am |
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Cold Snap Causes Frozen Iguana Shower
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Wednesday night's bitter cold temperatures rattled tree-dwelling iguanas in South Florida.
The large green reptiles drop out of the trees and litter the ground when temperatures drop in sunny South Florida.
The lizards are not dead. Most of them are alive and are simply cold. When the weather returns to the warmth they know and love, they will spring back to life.
"It is as if they are in suspended animation," said Robert Yero, park manager at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne.
At Bill Baggs park on Thursday, it was raining iguanas.
The critters could be found underneath buttonwood trees and beneath a sea grape.
"We have found dozens on the bike path after a major cold snap,'' said Yero. "When they warm up in the sun, they come back to life.''
The iguanas are exotics from Central and South America. Most of them were house pets at one point, and then released into the wild by their owners when they got too big.
In their new home in the wild of South Florida, they feed on vegetation.
''They really are taking over,'' Yero said.
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| woebedamned
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Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:25 am |
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Oh my! Doesn't sound like a place Beth would enjoy.
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Damn it All!!!!
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| Schmerty
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Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:42 pm |
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| woebedamned wrote: | | Oh my! Doesn't sound like a place Beth would enjoy. |
I wonder! Aruba had two or three in most of the outdoor resturants where we dined  Quite exotic "decorations"
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Skipping along my own path.
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Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:01 pm |
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I think they are kind of like pigeons with scales down in that area of the world. We saw them all over Venezuela and the islands off the coast their also. I think they are vegetarians. I saw a couple of really big ones down there.
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| tulsad
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Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:23 pm |
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Can you imagine innocently walking down the street and have one of those suckers fall on your head? They can weigh up to 18 pounds! 
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