While green iguanas have been found as far north as Jacksonville, the friendly climes of South Florida have allowed them to saturate the landscape from frolicking - and pooping - in backyard pools to dotting canal banks like sunbathers at the beach.
During past cold spells, Kern has found iguanas huddled under a building’s outflow vents to stay warm and “happily ensconced” between the fins of an electrical transformer.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said iguanas can become immobilized or sluggish when temperatures hit between 40 and 50 degrees. Longer cold snaps with overcast skies can be deadly as the paralyzed iguanas become easy prey to vultures, bobcats and coyotes. Also, when the lizards are immobilized by the cold, the lizards' digestive systems sour and they die from bacterial infections. Iguanas that fall from trees onto streets are also in danger of becoming road kill.
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