FLORIDA WILDLIFE UPDATE
(Thanks to Mark Schlesinger and RussellMc)
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But how do they taste?
Posted by: jon | February 27, 2014 at 01:00 PM
Exactly, jon. If there's one thing North Americans know how to do it's hunting a species to near extinction.
Who's going to open the first Tegu Bell? El Tegu Loco? Teg-Fil-A?
Problem solved. Next?
Posted by: Gargoyle Socks | February 27, 2014 at 01:22 PM
As long as it doesn't sell insurance I'm okay with it.
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | February 27, 2014 at 01:36 PM
What is a tegu lizard?
Posted by: MOTW | February 27, 2014 at 01:43 PM
lizard? oh, i thought they were talking about palmetto bugs.
Posted by: mudstuffin in klumbus | February 27, 2014 at 01:46 PM
I think the poor critters are just misunderstood. Releasing more large ones in urban areas would help to create a dialogue.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | February 27, 2014 at 02:07 PM
"Biologists are setting traps in the Balm-Boyette Scrub Preserve to try to determine how big the problem is."
The problem is about four and a half feet long, laying 50 eggs at a time. That' show big the problem is.
Posted by: Bob | February 27, 2014 at 02:13 PM
Just a lizard? Whew! I thought it was a reality tv star from Venezuela.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | February 27, 2014 at 02:34 PM
Won't the boa constrictors eat the Tegus ?
Posted by: Clankazoid | February 27, 2014 at 02:55 PM
No,Clank'. They are Tegu intolerant.
Posted by: markhh | February 27, 2014 at 03:15 PM
Sounds more like the newest Volkswagen model.
Posted by: Gargoyle Socks | February 27, 2014 at 03:26 PM
The smaller ones are sold as pets here; they're much more docile than monitors. However, they won't survive our winters outdoors, so we don't have the same problem.
I'd much rather deal with four-foot long Tegus than four-foot high Florida drivers.
Posted by: Ralph | February 27, 2014 at 05:05 PM
Time to put some pygmy alligator tail on the grill.
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.
Posted by: Steve | February 27, 2014 at 07:13 PM
Biologists are setting traps in the Balm-Boyette Scrub Preserve to try to determine how big the problem is.
The article said they were four or fix feet long.
Must be a reporter on drugs, unaware of what he just
wrote. Or wrought?
Posted by: funny man | February 28, 2014 at 08:24 PM