On Thursday, according to the National weather service in Miami, air temperatures in South Florida dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (+4 Celsius).
It’s cold enough to immobilize green iguanas – lizards, very common in Miami.
Columnist for the»Palm Beach Post» Frank Cerabino tweeted a photo of the iguana, which lies next to his swimming pool. Channel WPEC-TV published a photo of iguanas lying on her back on the track in palm beach.
As told Associated Press Kristen Sommers, observer of wildlife, the Florida Commission for the conservation of fish and wildlife, iguanas, which are native to South and Central America, are starting to become sluggish when the temperature drops below 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit).
«For them it’s too cold to move,» said Sommers.
Green iguanas – reptiles not the only one who is shocked by the unusually cold for Florida weather – biologists now save sea turtlesthat swim sluggishly near the shore.
However, good Samaritans who see a fallen iguana, experts do not recommend to touch them. «Leave them alone, I don’t think they’re dead. If you take them in hand, they get warm, can feel threatened and bite,» said Kristen Sommers.
In 2010, two-week lowering the temperature in Florida to 3-4 degrees Celsius have killed plenty of iguanas and Burmese pythons, but the population has since recovered.
