FLORIDA WILDLIFE UPDATE

The South American invader can grow up to four-and-a-half feet long and lays up to fifty eggs at a time.

(Thanks to Mark Schlesinger and RussellMc)

Comments

[jon]

But how do they taste?

[Gargoyle Socks]

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?

[Ms. Flukey]

As long as it doesn't sell insurance I'm okay with it.

[MOTW]

What is a tegu lizard?

[mudstuffin in klumbus]

lizard? oh, i thought they were talking about palmetto bugs.

[Not My Usual Alias]

I think the poor critters are just misunderstood. Releasing more large ones in urban areas would help to create a dialogue.

[Bob]

"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.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Just a lizard? Whew! I thought it was a reality tv star from Venezuela.

[Clankazoid]

Won't the boa constrictors eat the Tegus ?

[markhh]

No,Clank'. They are Tegu intolerant.

[Gargoyle Socks]

Sounds more like the newest Volkswagen model.

[Ralph]

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.

[Steve]

Time to put some pygmy alligator tail on the grill.
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.

[funny man]

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?