Sunday, January 6, 2008

Raining Cats, Dogs and...Lizards?

Hey, it's like an iguana popsicle!

clipped from news.yahoo.com


MIAMI (AFP) -
An unexpected cold snap this week sent thermometers plummeting in Florida and heat-hungry iguanas dropping from tree branches like autumn leaves, scientists and witnesses said.

A black spiny-tailed iguana in Miami in 2006. An unexpected cold snap this week sent thermometers plummeting in Florida and heat-hungry iguanas dropping from tree branches like autumn leaves.(AFP/File/Robert  Sullivan)


Passersby in Bill Baggs and Crandon parks in Key Biscayne, south of Miami, were seen picking up the seemingly lifeless lizards from the ground beneath trees and setting them in the sun, where after a brief warm-up, most revived and scampered off into the bushes.


Iguanas are not native to Florida but were brought in by travelers from Mexico, Central and South America.

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