00:00It's not every day you go for a walk and find the sidewalk littered with iguanas, but that's exactly what happened this week in South Florida when temperatures dipped below the freezing mark and the stunned reptiles began falling out of trees. They don't die, so they'll just slow their heart rate very, very slowly. They go into a hibernation state. We all large males. The scaly sleepyheads range in size from the small to the downright intimidating, weighing up to seven and a half feet.
00:30kilograms and growing up to one and a half meters long. It's one reason trappers see the cold snap as an opportunity. Green iguanas are considered invasive species to the region, and state law prohibits their release back into the wild, meaning they'll have to be euthanized. Also, when they're not frozen, they're notoriously hard to catch. Yet, in the past few days, this local trapping company has scooped up hundreds of the stunned reptiles simply by picking them up off the ground.
00:59Just us alone and for our company were over 1500 removed just on our own and through our local partnerships with some of the counties here since Sunday. They're an invasive species down here in South Florida, so they're obviously not supposed to be here. They're not natural in this environment. They're competing with a lot of resources with native animals. Trappers will soon be back to their usual methods. With temperatures in South Florida slowly on the rise, the rain of reptiles is no longer in the forecast.
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