Florida is so cold iguanas are falling out of trees

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MIAMI - The United States National Weather Service Miami-South Florida warned the public on Sunday that immobilised iguanas could fall out of trees owing to unusual cold temperatures across the regi

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Temperatures in South Florida reached a low of 25 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service, and high temperatures on Sunday were expected to remain in the upper 50s to low 60s. Zoologist Stacey Cohen, a reptile expert at Palm Beach Zoo in Florida, explained the iguana phenomenon to television station WPBF.

Although most of the reptiles will likely survive this period of immobilisation, Ms Cohen said freezing temperatures were a threat to their survival and pointed to a cold snap in 2010 that wiped out a large number of the population.

 

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