{"id":140734,"date":"2026-02-02T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:44:11","slug":"florida-wildlife-officials-receive-boxes-of-cold-stunned-iguanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/140734\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida wildlife officials receive boxes of cold-stunned iguanas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As temperatures fall in the Sunshine State, so do the iguanas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cold temperatures across Florida are causing cold-stunned iguanas to fall from trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents are collecting the immobilized reptiles and delivering them to wildlife officials to ensure they receive care.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/90b0b10a8272c35e6f0ea8c966537ba3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The phenomenon occurs when temperatures drop low enough to paralyze the cold-blooded animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the iguanas appear lifeless, they are often alive but unable to move or maintain their hold on branches in the cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video footage from South Florida captured the scale of the event, showing numerous iguanas dropping from tree branches as temperatures plummeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wildlife officials have received several boxes filled with stunned iguanas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As temperatures fall in the Sunshine State, so do the iguanas. Cold temperatures across Florida are causing cold-stunned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27849,19428,68370,28,30,29,45749,8657],"class_list":{"0":"post-140734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cold-temperatures","9":"tag-cold-weather","10":"tag-cold-blooded-animals","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-tree-branches","15":"tag-wildlife-officials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}