Frozen Iguana - Frozen to Death in South Florida

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Severe South Florida cold front left a lot of dead iguanas around the canals.
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Pets & Animals

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• dead
• iguana
• frozen
• south
• florida
• cold
• front
• reptile
• dragon
• lizard

[oWigglez]

Its not actually dead. I live in Key West FL, this usually happens all the time here. What happens is there heart rate slows down which makes them sleep. So if you ever see Iguanas fall out of trees its because there asleep. Its pretty much like hibernation.

[BetterDuckStudios]

@oWigglez They were so deep in sleep that they decomposed and stunk up the entire neighborhood. They were dead sir.

[deniskatashkentskiy]

lmao at 0:09! looks just like my friend when he gets drunk

[jimmymarshallable]

@lydia9069 Nobody gives a shit.

[shadowdevilwolf1]

@oWigglez lol i learn something new

[miuwu208able]

If any body remembers JAN 1977 we had snow in HOLLYWOOD and other areas. I was 10yrs old and in the 4th grade going to school HOLLY CRAP BATMAN..

[lydia9069]

Aw this is so sad, I have an iguana and I can't imagine him freezing to death, his name is bob

[UniteForgetLeftRight]

@BetterDuckStudios they are a few left though right? do you see big lizards regularly if you go looking for them?

[panzerwolf494]

@melotom

Overpopulating on their own and becoming a pest shows they are fit for life in Florida. What did them in was a "freak nature" event.

[twilightingX]

@BetterDuckStudios

"They were so deep in sleep that they decomposed" Haha! Too funny.

[baitfilms]

Did he Died?

[melotom]

@BetterDuckStudios Ya, iguanas shouldn't hibernate. It's that they are so cold they slow down, their organs stop to function and will eventually die. People, do not let your pet iguanas free in Florida. That is not right. They are not suited for florida and if they were pets, they do not know how to survive on their own.

[Ekbok3000]

I live just minutes away from North Miami and the cold snap of Jan 2010 was the coldest 10 consecutive days I've experienced down here. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined seeing tiny icicles dangling from my rooftops in the morning, thin sheets of ice forming on the lake behind my house at night, or 41 degree (Farenheit) temperatures at 2 PM in Miami!!!! Iguanas are not native species here, so no amount of hibernation would've protected them from that