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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you are doing this for sport and the thrill of the kill? I’m pretty sure that no matter how many you kill, there will be countless others to replace them. They don’t like the cold weather so better hurry and spear + club as many now while it’s still warm as they lie frozen when there is a cold spell, wouldn’t want to spoil your fun,[/quote]

Yep, doing it for sport, because it’s fun. Well, probably not for the iguana, but oh well. I try to shoot as many females as I can, because that does make an impact on the numbers. The males are bigger, have better (cooler looking) skins and more meat, but killing females definitely has more of an impact with population control.

If you have 20 male iguanas and 20 female iguanas, at the end of the breeding season (just ended, btw) you have 20 gravid (egg bearing) females.

If you kill 18 of those males, you’ll still have 20 gravid females at the end of the breeding season.

But if you kill 18 males and 10 females, you’ll only have 10 gravid females at the end of the season. So killing the females helps a great deal. You’ll never get rid of all of them, but if the pressure is kept up, it will at least keep the numbers down from what they’d be if no one did anything.

As far as cold weather, yeah, below about 50 degrees they get sorta comatose. They can fall right outta the trees. But when they warm up, they’re back to normal. It will never be cold enough, long enough in south Florida to kill them off. Not with climate change at least. Unless climate change means it gets colder, too.  And I don’t think anyone ever talks about that happening. [/quote]

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