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eddiememphis
02-27-2022, 17:32
https://www.outdoorlife.com/uploads/2022/02/24/273994447_5372442669450468_7433445092771503230_n.p ng
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/florida-iguana-invasion/
This guy is hired to hunt these scary prehistoric beasts.
buffalobo
02-27-2022, 17:49
Chicken of the trees.
https://www.google.com/search?q=iguana+recipes&oq=iguana+recipes&aqs=chrome..69i57.5483j0j9&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
It's just an iguana. Herbivore. And not that big, a lot of forced perspective. About the same size as a tegu. Tegus can be pretty feisty though.
But no the reptiles to fear is gators and pythons.
It's just an iguana. Herbivore. And not that big, a lot of forced perspective. About the same size as a tegu. Tegus can be pretty feisty though.
But no the reptiles to fear is gators and pythons.
Look at the size of his hands...
encorehunter
02-27-2022, 19:29
It was raining iguanas earlier this year. It got cold down there, and they can't tolerate it. Once they warm back up, they climb back in the trees. We are planning a trip to Florida this summer, my 8 and 6 year old wants to go iguana hunting.
ChickNorris
02-27-2022, 22:04
Fwiw, I had a very large pet iguana in my 20's. Very mature adult male grew to about 15lbs & a little over 6'. My estimate is that critter is about the same size & not quite as heavy as Khan & mine was even more orange. Probably a little skewed perspective on the size relationship in the photo as I don't think that fella is any bigger than I am for reference.
Look at the size of his hands...
Not sure what you mean, but I've owned iguanas
If yall want to see monsters, Google black throat monitor and goannas.
https://youtu.be/07zapzcuR84
And of course komodos.
ChickNorris
02-27-2022, 22:44
Yup. Had a Savanna monitor too. He was a puppy in temperament until it was time to eat & then he was a bit of a jerk. Big guy, near 4.5' but thats deceptive (unless you're familiar with them) as they are chunky beasties. Think he weighed more than Khan or just about.
https://youtu.be/p-zGIS-WWZQ
Iguana puppy
https://youtu.be/XyMDl1oh0cc
Aloha_Shooter
02-28-2022, 00:15
Not sure what you mean, but I've owned iguanas
These are not the pet-size iguanas commonly seen in aquarium tanks, If you look at his hands holding the iguana for size comparison, you can see the perspective isn’t THAT forced. It’s not like Peter Jackson shooting a hobbit movie.
I've owned 1 iguana. I caught that 2.5 ft lizard in a parking lot at my work, because it was terrorizing our workers. I should've fried it. Terrible pet.
These are not the pet-size iguanas commonly seen in aquarium tanks, If you look at his hands holding the iguana for size comparison, you can see the perspective isn’t THAT forced. It’s not like Peter Jackson shooting a hobbit movie.
Dunno, didn't raise mine from a baby as it came from my school. 6ft mofo liked to nap on me. Certainly no rock iggy.
Wish my tegu had been that tame. And i miss my mini varanus monitors. Wife just didn't like the food for them.
Maybe get some veggy eating uromastyx. Crazy colors. Shame she's snake phobic, get a chubby lil sand boa.
So many cool reptiles, thread is just memory laning me.
These are not the pet-size iguanas commonly seen in aquarium tanks, If you look at his hands holding the iguana for size comparison, you can see the perspective isn’t THAT forced. It’s not like Peter Jackson shooting a hobbit movie.
Still a good pic, bet he takes great fish pics. He knows how to do it for sure.
eddiememphis
02-28-2022, 09:11
From the story...
"Most green iguanas Kimmel shoots are two- to four-feet long, and his biggest to date is a massive 6-footer that weighed 18 pounds. "
Regardless of pets and deliciousness, I have found no one that has successfully argued against my original statement... Florida Sucks.
BladesNBarrels
02-28-2022, 09:26
Location and timing
https://i.imgur.com/84EBz4z.jpg
wctriumph
02-28-2022, 12:48
I had a Iguana for two years, boring pet, gave it away to a friend that was into reptiles. He put it in a larger enclosure and killed it by accident by leaving a heat lamp on.
Besides that, yes, Florida sucks. I have been there several times and I have been all over the state. Alligators were the most prevalent road kill.
buffalobo
02-28-2022, 13:56
So who is gonna put one on the smoker this weekend?
buffalobo
02-28-2022, 13:59
"Regardless of pets and deliciousness, I have found no one that has successfully argued against my original statement... Florida Sucks."
No reason to argue against it(my family likes it and doesn't care what others think) and you listed no reasons why Florida sucks.
Check out the new Dirty Jobs episode where they take out the FL iguanas and turn them into fishing chum.
These things are an invasive species, aren?t they?
These things are an invasive species, aren?t they?
They are and they're doing a lot of damage to the ecosystem.
Florida does have great cave diving!
...and it certainly gets you off the beaten path (very, very rural Florida in most cases).
O2
Not sure what you mean, but I've owned iguanas
It just seems his hands are disproportionately large...maybe it's just my perspective.
wctriumph
03-01-2022, 07:24
"Regardless of pets and deliciousness, I have found no one that has successfully argued against my original statement... Florida Sucks."
No reason to argue against it(my family likes it and doesn't care what others think) and you listed no reasons why Florida sucks.
For me and it was the daily 99% humidity! Sweat in the morning and wet all day. The conch chowder sucked too. Tried it at two different places and it was just not good ?
Florida sucks because of lizards? Is that like saying Colorado and Wyoming suck because of Pronghorn? [Dunno]
I didn't particularly enjoy Florida. Too many bugs. The humidity was almost unbearable. The alligators, the hurricanes. The drivers.
Driving from the airport, it seemed like the trees on either side if the road were slowly leaning in, like they intended to take Florida back. And I believed them, too.
I've got friends that live there, and they love it. It's just not my cup of tea.
OneGuy67
03-03-2022, 09:23
We had them all over GTMO. Not supposed to feed them, but we did. They weren't tame, but we named the various ones and they were pretty loyal to the food sources.
Tor Larson
03-03-2022, 11:19
Florida is fine by me. Great beaches, ocean, seafood, sun, and firearms friendly. Where else do you see $300k Bentleys doing 100mph on a wide open freeway at 11pm and no one gets upset? So many Ferraris, Porsches, AMGs, Martins, McLarens, and Lambos you lose count while eating a great $8 burger on the A1 south of West Palm Beach. Love visiting there but the area is changing. Getting flooded by transplants from NY, NJ. Housing prices have gone from very nice to damn expensive. My connection is moving out of the state. Just too many changes so not the same.
Florida is fine by me. Great beaches, ocean, seafood, sun, and firearms friendly. Where else do you see $300k Bentleys doing 100mph on a wide open freeway at 11pm and no one gets upset? So many Ferraris, Porsches, AMGs, Martins, McLarens, and Lambos you lose count while eating a great $8 burger on the A1 south of West Palm Beach. Love visiting there but the area is changing. Getting flooded by transplants from NY, NJ. Housing prices have gone from very nice to damn expensive. My connection is moving out of the state. Just too many changes so not the same.
The first part of that sounds like the UAE.
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