This for real?
iguananauts
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
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).
sneaky@r.nf 2 months ago
Yeah! They sleep in trees and when it gets in the 40s something about the cold causes their muscles to stop working and they just fall out of the trees.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
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”
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why would you eat them!? They eat mosquitos!
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The gators and snakes slow down too.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me emphasize that iguanas (and all sorts of lizards) are everywhere in Southern 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 2 months ago
50 degrees fahrenheit =10 degrees celsius
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Ty
django@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
You should start eating them before they go stale.
They ain’t called the chicken of the trees for nothing.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I know about guy who takes them home and keeps them as pets for a few a weeks and then sets them loose back in the park.
django@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I don’t eat my friends.