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    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.

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    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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      Sometimes they just fall outta the trees because they’re cold blooded and it’s too cold.

      Not a lot, but sometimes.

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      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?!”

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      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.

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      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.