As New Englanders package deal up and hunker all the way down to journey out the “bomb cyclone” this is recently hammering the japanese United States with freezing temperatures, heavy winds and snow, they are able to take convenience in something: no less than it’s now not raining iguanas.
That’s the placement in Florida, where unusually bloodless temperatures have sent the green lizards tumbling from their perches on bushes – a result of the cold-blooded creatures basically shutting down when it gets too cold. The iguanas are likely not dead, experts, but merely stunned and will reanimate when they warm up.
Iguanas aren’t the only species struggling to cope with the cold snap.
In Texas, the temperature in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico has dipped low sufficient to cold-stun sea turtles, inflicting them to float to the surface where they are vulnerable to predators. The National Park Service had rescued 41 live but freezing turtles by midday Tuesday.
In the meantime on Massuchusetts’ Cape Cod, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has reported the strandings of three thresher sharks. Two of the sharks were likely suffering affected by “bloodless surprise” the group said, whilst the third had frozen solid.
“A true sharkcicle!” the gang wrote on Facebook.
Even animals that appear in particularly well-suited to frigid temperatures are feeling the chill. The Calgary Zoo announced Sunday that it used to be shifting its king penguins within amid -13F (-25C) temperatures. King penguins are native to the subantarctic islands surrounding Antarctica. And a group of snowmobilers in Canada rescued a bull moose buried in 6ft of snow.
> Shiuly Akter
