We don't have them in NW Florida, but I dated a girl down south, and yeah, they fall out of trees when it gets cold (for Florida values of cold). She told me about this and I couldn't stop laughing. "Seriously?! They just plop in the yard and on people's heads?!"
Let me emphasize that iguanas (and all sorts of lizards) are everywhere in these parts of Florida.
Anecdote: I once disrupted an ant mound against a wall, and a swarm of lizards came out of hiding to gobble the runners up like a scene out of freakin' Jurassic Park!
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django@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 278d
The elites don’t want you to know this, but the iguanas at the park are free. You can take them home: I have 458 iguanas.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 11 pts · 278d
You should start eating them before they go stale.
They ain't called the chicken of the trees for nothing.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 278d
I know a guy who takes them home and keeps them as pets for a few a weeks and then sets them loose back in the park.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 1 pts · 278d
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 278d
I don't eat my friends.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 278d
This for real?
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 29 pts · 278d
Sometimes they just fall outta the trees because they’re cold blooded and it’s too cold.
Not a lot, but sometimes.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 278d
We don't have them in NW Florida, but I dated a girl down south, and yeah, they fall out of trees when it gets cold (for Florida values of cold). She told me about this and I couldn't stop laughing. "Seriously?! They just plop in the yard and on people's heads?!"
Rooster326@programming.dev · 9 pts · 278d
Yes you can see it yourself. Though it will mostly happen overnight so you'll wake up to them dormant at the bottom of a tree.
People eat them and it's a super easy time to catch them
"Chicken of the trees"
It's rare it gets that cold though especially lately.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
Why would you eat them!? They eat mosquitos!
Rooster326@programming.dev · 5 pts · 277d
Their primary diet is leafy greens? Also do you have any idea the sheer number of animals that eat mosquitoes?
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 278d
The gators and snakes slow down too.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 278d
Let me emphasize that iguanas (and all sorts of lizards) are everywhere in these parts of Florida.
Anecdote: I once disrupted an ant mound against a wall, and a swarm of lizards came out of hiding to gobble the runners up like a scene out of freakin' Jurassic Park!
Numenor@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 278d
50 degrees fahrenheit =10 degrees celsius
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 278d
Ty