• alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, are iguana are invasive? But they're so cool, I don't have the heart to kill them.

    When I lived there, and it was cold enough that they stopped moving I used to put them in tubs of warm water until they scampered back into the mangroves.

    • The_word_of_dog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeahhhh the green iguana are invasive, they mess up the habitats of some endangered species and cause general infrastructural damage.

      They call them chicken of the trees there and have been known to spontaneously go into hibernation during cold snaps and just fall from the canopy like lizard rain

      Fwiw I think they're rad as hell too

      • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Iguanas pose the same problems as outdoor cats, theyre a predator/competitor of native bird species IIRC. Florida is just a hot fucking mess of ecology.