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Those iguanas that fall when it’s cold? Floridians collected them for killing.

Ryan Izquierdo woke up on a recent morning groggy, cold and most of all ready — to go iguana hunting.
Temperatures in Jupiter, Florida, where the 27-year-old social media star lives, had dipped well below 50 degrees, as a cold front swallowed much of the East Coast in snowfall and record-breaking low temperatures. As flurries fell on parts of the state, residents braced for the inevitable: Cold-stunned green iguanas — one of Floridians’ most reviled invasive pests — began to lose consciousness and fall out of trees.




