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  • There's been iguanas down here for a long time

  • but there's nothing

  • that's gonna really thin them out down here

  • except for us or a cold snap.

  • It's almost December and it's 85 degrees out.

  • Definitely a big problem.

  • We've been outdoors men our whole lives.

  • We're always out.

  • So, we just saw it become a problem

  • and we just set out to try to do something

  • and try to make a difference in controlling it.

  • We love Florida, we love South Florida's ecosystem

  • so we saw a need for it.

  • Right there.

  • This is kinda some of the things that they do.

  • They destroy landscaping, they dig holes.

  • Their tunnels can be up to 80 feet long.

  • They spread salmonella in their feces.

  • They're not from Florida.

  • They're actually invasive to here.

  • They're native to Central and South America

  • and they were brought in in the pet trade and let go

  • and now this is what we have to deal with.

  • So their population's exploded over time

  • and they're endangering native wildlife

  • along with destroying our native plants.

  • We've had people that had to reconcrete

  • their sea walls because there was such giant holes.

  • People don't realize

  • a lot of places, you have more than one or two.

  • We're talking double digits

  • and you can just see by having 10, 15 of these guys

  • in your backyard, even not knowing what they do,

  • you can see how it can be a problem.

  • South Florida, there's a lot of canals down here.

  • They just use them as highways to disperse.

  • So everyone living on the water,

  • you're at a huge risk.

  • Very impressive, they're great climbers,

  • great swimmers, they're fairly fast,

  • they have excellent vision.

  • So, super competitive down here in South Florida.

  • We've removed upwards of 50 in one clutch.

  • Sometimes they're clumsy

  • so they'll get a little nervous when you run underneath them

  • and they'll try to go to another branch,

  • miss and fall on your head.

  • There's three species that you predominantly find out here.

  • This is the most prevalent.

  • You'll also see black spiny tails

  • and Mexican spiny tails,

  • different species of iguanas.

  • But those are the three

  • that you most commonly find down here.

  • They're all different sizes so I mean

  • this just happens to be a really large male.

  • But for being as ferocious looking,

  • they're predominant, they're herbivores.

  • They've been here since the 60s.

  • We haven't had any cold winter

  • to limit their population

  • so they're just breeding like crazy.

  • Climate change, it's extreme temperature

  • so we could get cold weather here

  • but in general, the last few years, it's

  • What, almost December and it's 85 degrees out now?

  • I mean, so who knows?

  • If it gets cold enough,

  • they're cold blooded so they go in a state of inactivity.

  • If it continues being cold, they may not recover

  • but there's been news articles in the past where

  • people think they're dead because they're frozen,

  • pick them up, and then they end up heating up

  • and then now you're holding

  • or you have one in your car that's alive.

  • So we do this to make sure that they don't harm themselves

  • or other animals while they're in the other traps

  • so they don't bite each other, scratch each other.

  • This is the most humane way to remove them from a property

  • other than keeping them in a trap.

  • If you keep them in a trap,

  • they like to bang up their noses

  • then they get injured.

  • Everything we do, we have respect.

  • I went to school for biology.

  • I love animals.

  • This is not something we're doing just to do it for fun.

  • We really see the destruction they've been causing.

  • It is a problem.

There's been iguanas down here for a long time

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佛羅里達州的鬣蜥蜴入侵正在升溫。 (Florida's Iguana Invasion Is Heating Up)

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