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VIDEO: How Florida Missed a Great Opportunity to Eradicate Iguanas
YouTube ^ | July 14, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies

Posted on 07/14/2019 7:33:20 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

VIDEO

After the last big freeze in South Florida in the winter of 2010 in which we had temperatures of about 40 degrees and below for at least five days in a row, the iguana population of the area was almost entirely wiped out. Yet today we now have an iguana population in the millions overrunning the area. This didn't need to happen. In this video I discuss how we missed a golden opportunity right after the 2010 big freeze to permanently bring about the permanent almost complete eradication of the invasive species iguana population and how we, along with the help of the Florida Wildlife Commission, can do it the next time Mother Nature blesses us with another big freeze lasting a few days.


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: florida; iguanas; invasivespecies
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To: PJ-Comix

They really do taste just like chicken... because their molecular physiology is the same. It’s one time when the cliché is accurate. I don’t get why the hesitation.


21 posted on 07/14/2019 8:51:05 AM PDT by dangus
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To: PJ-Comix
"not that effective"

Brother and I worked that out as kids of the 60's.

We got skilled at hitting birds and lizards in the head. We shot until the target was down.

22 posted on 07/14/2019 8:51:19 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Scooter100

Ew. Iguana doesn’t gross me out, but dear hearts? That’s nasty. :-)


23 posted on 07/14/2019 8:52:05 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Boomer

I wouldn’t think the Cubans would need to be told.

And Boone’s Farm isn’t extinct, I don’t think. Not sure about Night Train.


24 posted on 07/14/2019 8:54:35 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Scooter100

Start offering $$$ for Iguana tails, folks will breed them for the $$$... Common sense...


25 posted on 07/14/2019 8:56:44 AM PDT by dakine
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To: Boomer

Wow, Mad Dog even has new flavors. Banana Red, Blue Raspberry. Must be aiming for the homeless children.


26 posted on 07/14/2019 8:58:33 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: dakine

kill them in the wild, breed them and kill them...isn’t the final result the same?


27 posted on 07/14/2019 9:01:47 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: dangus

That’s my inner southern Brother Dave Gardiner popping up.


28 posted on 07/14/2019 9:03:48 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Scooter100

I can’t tell if you got it.... eating dear hearts?


29 posted on 07/14/2019 9:05:25 AM PDT by dangus
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To: PJ-Comix

I have a friend who originally came from Trinidad and Tobago. He claims iguanas are delicious.


30 posted on 07/14/2019 9:09:12 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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To: Boomer
Make it perfectly legal to hunt them and advertise how good they are on the grill.

It already is legal to hunt them.

They will be gone by this time next year.

Nope! Won't happen. We need to wait for the next big freeze to wipe out over 99% of the iguanas as happened in 2010 and then soon put a $100 bounty on the remainder.

31 posted on 07/14/2019 9:13:01 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: dangus
They really do taste just like chicken... because their molecular physiology is the same. It’s one time when the cliché is accurate. I don’t get why the hesitation.

It's an instinctive hesitation but I hope to overcome it by eating some iguana. Did you personally eat iguana? If so, let us know in detail how it tasted? Yeah, I know it tastes like chicken but what else?

32 posted on 07/14/2019 9:15:22 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Now there are Nile Monitor lizards roaming there also.
No closed season on any of the foreign species.

Something very effective for hunting these lizards,, bufo toads...22 cb caps. A small lead bb w/ the primer only propellant.
I used them against Bufos all the time when I lived down there. Very effective and not loud. Close range though.


33 posted on 07/14/2019 9:47:35 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Boomer
The New Wave band "Wall of Voodoo" did their part with the hit video "Mexican Radio":


I wish I were in Tijuana
Eating barbecued iguana

34 posted on 07/14/2019 10:13:25 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Deaf Smith

No kidding. At certain times of the year 40f is t-shirt weather around here.


35 posted on 07/14/2019 10:14:46 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: gundog

Really? MD 2020 and Boone’s Farm wines are still around? Tells you what I know about wine. Somewhere between nothing and none.

When I drank I was more of a domestic beer and occasional shot of tequila guy.


36 posted on 07/14/2019 10:23:15 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: PJ-Comix

I thought anything below 70 in South Florida was a “freeze”!


37 posted on 07/14/2019 10:34:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Boomer
How about Thunderbird? James Mason actually cut a commercial for Thunderbird and expected us to believe that he found it "really delightful." I found out the reason why he did the commercial was because he desperately needed the money due to a nasty divorce from his incredibly annoying wife, Pamela Mason.

James Mason says: Thunderbird Wine Has An Unusual Flavor

38 posted on 07/14/2019 10:38:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Boomer

I saw Boone’s Farm in a local store that carries a lot of craft beers. I had to google Maddog.


39 posted on 07/14/2019 10:54:37 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Back in San Diego in 1968 a couple of us sailors indulged in “Vampire Liberty”. When you gave blood at the local Red Cross facility, they would give you a ten dollar bill. Then we’d go a the nearest liquor store and buy a couple of quarts of T-Bird and head on down to the Sunset Cliffs. When you’re a pint low, a pint of the ‘Bird gives you quite a head.


40 posted on 07/14/2019 11:41:37 AM PDT by VietVet876
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