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Falling lizards ahead!

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:24 am
by Tunnelcat
What happens when Iguanas get too cold up while up in the trees during freezing weather. DUCK!

http://www.justnews.com/news/22152242/detail.html

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:45 am
by SirSamII
rofl I haven't seen that yet here, but now I will be on the lookout for them.

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:52 pm
by woodchip
Heh, kinda reminds me of the iguana I had back at college. He would sit on the window sill and sleep there at night. In the winter the sill got pretty cold and in the morning he'd be stiff as a corpse. He'd revive though and appeared no worse for wear.

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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:00 pm
by Stroodles
woodchip wrote:Heh, kinda reminds me of the iguana I had back at college. He would sit on the window sill and sleep there at night. In the winter the sill got pretty cold and in the morning he'd be stiff as a corpse. He'd revive though and appeared no worse for wear.
:lol:

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:05 pm
by Spidey
Pretty easy pickins for someone that wants some pets.

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:36 pm
by Flatlander

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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:47 pm
by Stroodles
Flatlander wrote:It might even snow here :x
It already has here :D

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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:23 pm
by SirSamII
Flatlander wrote:It might even snow here :x
I'll have to upload the pictures. Not just my yard, but my car had a complete layer of ice across it that took me 10 mins to melt before I could drive. Now its 51 out! This doesn't happen in FL.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:39 pm
by Duper
Sure it does, just not very often. It did in the mid 80's and killed a ton of orange orchards.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:06 pm
by SirSamII
Not global warming, nor global cooling. 1899 even Florida dipped to minus zero!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weeki ... chang.html

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:41 pm
by Tunnelcat
Isn't the cold convenient for Florida in this case? Weren't they trying to eradicate or at least pare down the Iguana population? If they fall out of the trees when cold, they would be easy to capture. Just pick them up, then summarily relocate the little devils. I read somewhere that they were non-native pests.