Reptilian Invaders in Florida!

Tegu will wipe out all egg-laying species in Florida.

Yes I have a tegu and I'm the son of man. 🪰💥🔨😑🖖 How? Literally?🚪🤸

I'm just the son of man I used to be a "lizard"

I had 2 tegus a black and white and a red and idk how people can’t take care of them there easy but I sold them because I wasn’t do mentally well at the time they didn’t cost me and arm or a leg to feed or house so how are people releasing them in the wild I had mine going working part time 25-30 hrs a week making 8.75 with a drinking problem

They have a strong bite.

The argentine tegu isnt the most dangerous animal in florida, coming from a guy who lives in an entirely different state with an entirely seperate type of tegu.

Florida is becoming Australia slowly

Leave em be tegus are rad

Does the Florida panther a.k.a cougars eat tegus?

LOVE THIS! I have a 10 month old Blue Tegu named Killian and it has been a blast having him around. They are so intelligent, I've target trained mine for feeding and we've finally mastered his litter box training. Eats like a monster but is such a sweetheart and curious little guy <3

Totally true about the bite force of these guys...when he was young (about 4 months old) we did have an incident where he got my thumb and shook his body. I almost needed stitches...and he was still a baby! The strength of these animals is astounding and demands respect.

He has never been aggressive towards humans or tried to bite anyone since. We immediately jumped into training to tame his food aggression because I knew as he grew that behavior was unacceptable. I couldn't believe how fast he picked up target training (He has a bright orange target that is ONLY shown to him for feeding and is completed hidden from him during any other time, it's very strict, but it's taught him when to expect food and reversed that behavior.

I wish I can find a genie lamp and I got 3 wishes I would wish for all of the invasive species to go back to their natural habitats.

this video is the best video in the world.Can you get those as pets.

As an argentinean, i must say that i love this lizard, he belongs to my country, here is called "Lagarto Overo", is famous to eat eggs among anything else he cant find, is super fast, super agressive and allways hungry, but is a factastic creature.
It is very sad for me.. that tons of animals like this one or others from different countries are trafficked in the black market of animals for some (hdspm) with very little gray matter in another part of the world can presume about having a rare animal that dosen't belong there...
Makes me feel very angry and powerless, the suffering of these animals when they are being stolen from their natural habitat and selled to the highest bidder.
Please, be smart, be kind, respect all natural wildlife, they dont deserve to be a pet in your house, they deserve to be happy on the wild, FREE.
If you ever want to feel/touch/admire an animal that is not from your country or is it, just travel and see it with your own eyes, grab it genttly and let him go.

Regardless what anyone tells you always remember,House Cats are the most invasive & harmful invasive animals in the world

I love watching your shows in your episodes but on this one I have to disagree with you tagus are not bad pets people are bad owners

i have one as a pet and it is the nicest lizard you'd meet

Bah, my tegu and my Nile monitor are about the easiest to feed that I have. Tegu make great pets for a competent handler

I hold a python

I have a tegu as a pet

I have two tegu at home

They look like they would bite pretty hard😅

These guys are actually warm blooded! Did you know that?

I Wonder if there is people just seeing this 6 years later

the time you spent bullshitting you could have caught 3 more. But oh the Drama.

adress please i just lost my second tegu and want another

I got one in the shed ! Come get it. It's eating my chicken eggs

They are all over the place! See them all the time near weeden island preserve!!

tegues make great pets if you are willing to put in the time money and effort

Welcome to Florida, we don't have Rocks in the woods. 😮

When you relaize that a baby tegu is 200$+ 🤑

hahah,¡don´t tell me tegus from La pampa are borning wild in Florida! wow ,Congratullations TEGUS!!

They eat baby opossums, so I hate them. The opossums are native.

I live, hunt and fish is South & Southwest Florida and invasive species like these have decimated the small mamel populations. I almost never see raccoons, foxes, rabbits and squirrel in Big Cypress National Preserve South of I-75. North there are a few rabbit, the occasional Coyote and opossum but nothing even close to what we saw in the 80's & 90's. It's just sad to think what it will he like 10 years from now.

They are strong. I have a red and bigger than that one. Mine's a dog so sweet and spoiled. He actually is best friends with my cat.

“…barring a plentiful food source” without a plentiful food source?

Hi Coyote I have heled a Black and White Tegu before and it was nearly the same size like the one that you chatted. And it was a very friendly one too (the one that I heled) and I agree with you they are very beautiful Lizards a friend of mine had all kinds of Reptiles like Green Iguanas, Asian Water Monitors, Snakes like Burmese Pythons (a female) and Boas and Royal Pythons and Snapping Turtles + Birds of Prey and Fish (fresh water or Sea water types) and he had it all and I love going round he's house getting to hold them I love my Reptiles a lot it's amazing to see them all the time.

Ripped his arm open ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The thing is, I really like the telugu chameleon.

Looks like Elstead Common!😂😂😂😂

So cool loved it! now i want to go to Florida. Your Awsome.

It's not that they're a bad pet I've heard that they're actually pretty good and docile lizards to have The problem is people that don't have any place in the reptile world decide to go out and get one as a pet and they have no business having one as a pet cuz they're not ready for the challenge.

I'm sure they can be great pets, the problem is they are not pets they are wild and are killing and eating native species and it's awful, just like the boa's in Fla. they devour native species to the point where there's nothing left in the everglades they ate everything!

Saw one today when i was riding my bike. So I have been googling and learning about them today. The one I saw was really big and beautiful. Basking in the sun.

Hello

Black and white tegus are literally my favorite lizard ever
But since I live in Florida I can’t legally own one 😭😭😭

I was glad to hear he is not releasing. These invasive species are destroying our eco system.

I have one crawling up my back now please tell me that he got a good home..