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Exciting, high action footage of catching iguanas in Southeast Florida. Two days worth of recording on Gopro Hero 3. Two iguanas were harvested in this film due to them being invasive animals and tasting delicious. Meat was parboiled, then fried. Each iguana yielded just under two pounds of meat.
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10. comment for CATCHING IGUANAS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
FOR FOOD???!!
WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU LIVE?
IT'S NOT ABOUT SURVIVAL !!!
YOU ARE A STUPID AND THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR KIDS THAT LOVES ANIMAL I WAS LUCKY TO TURN OFF THE TV SO MY KID WON'T HAVE TO SEE THIS THING.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??
WHY KILL IT?
GO HOME AND EAT!!!!! LIKE YOU SHOULD INSTED OF KILLING ANIMALES!
SOOO STUPID!!
20. comment for CATCHING IGUANAS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
DUMB ASS
NIGA
30. comment for CATCHING IGUANAS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
And while I don't particularly condone videos of this nature, we are literally the ONLY natural predator they have in places like Florida. Without us killing them off, they'll eventually destroy the entire natural landscape.
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50. comment for CATCHING IGUANAS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
Eats a burger a day later
do u guys want to hunt together
100. comment for CATCHING IGUANAS IN SOUTH FLORIDA
PIECE OF SHIT
Or walk by a thousand homeless people, pretend they're invisible and run to a stray dog. Yep, those.
Tree huger.
damn they were not expecting for that to happen. I feel terrible for the iguanas :.( I cri evrytim
Humans are certainly not on top of the food chain when it comes to combating wild animals without tools that allow us to cheat. When I get in the water and swim up to that massive Iguana for a hand capture, I earned my kill just like any other predator, and you can bet that I'm going to harvest that animal whether its invasive or not (unless it's endangered of course). Don't forget how this species survived as long as it has. Early humans didn't go to walmart or mcdonalds for food, they hunted it. You commenters repeatedly bash me with your dogmatism and act as though my actions are objectively wrong, while you support and encourage the mistreatment, and torture of domestic animals every day through purchasing animal products at the market. Just because the blood isn't on your hands, or you didn't witness the killing of an animal doesn't mean it didn't happen. Your allegations against me display your blindness and lack of comprehension of how this world works. I realize most of you are hedonistic and cannot stand the sight of your favorite animals that you view as pets being harvested. The reality of the situation is that these are wild animals, not pets. No wild animal on this earth is a "pet" no matter how you think about them. Not to mention the Iguanas I'm dealing with are destructive and invasive. And guess what, we "humans" are "animals" too. Nothing more, nothing less.
Four seconds of cutting through an animal's cervical vertebrae and spinal cord, resulting in instant death, is certainly better than poultry companies throwing twenty live chicks into a meat grinder and pressing a button; and a Hell of a lot more humane than a feline gnawing on its prey's neck and killing it by suffocation (sometimes taking hours). No a buck knife (what I used) is not the ideal execution weapon, but unless you're running around with a machete (which I now have for this purpose), that is the best option you have. I have taken the altruistic acts of saving Florida's fragile ecosystem and incorporated the harvest of these invaders; both of which I thoroughly enjoy doing. Yes you will see a smile on my face while I am on the hunt, and especially after I have made my hand capture. I am a human, which means I am a predator. Killing the animal is certainly not the goal, and there are always those feelings of sadness when you take the life of a beautiful animal; but it is the only way from A to B. B being my stomach, not the trash can (where many "hunters" throw their kills these days). I get little satisfaction out of staring at a tv screen, playing online games, walking through a town mall, or going grocery shopping. Nature is my grocery store, and not everything is on the list (a concept most of you today find hard to comprehend). It is all about knowing what to take, and how much of it to harvest. When a certain species (not native) threatens a more important species (endangered), actions to correct that are rightful, and necessary. What I'm trying to get at here is educate yourself, and think before you speak.
Thanks.
DUMB ASS
SHIT NIGA
While your at it, look up what inbred means, and find out why your mom married her cousin.
Dirty swamp trash, I bet that makes you feel like a man. I hope you get dysentery, you 11 toed bitch.
Its always dumb kids that complain about stuff like this. You really are just wasting your time trying to explain yourself.
Invasive means it was brought by human intervention but is destroying the ecosystem so not every animal is invasive and it takes hundreds of years for an animal to adapt to a new environment without humans
Sincerely,
David
As for the harvesting of these lizards, they are now a permanent food source for me. I get no less than one meal every other day out of these lizards, and putting myself through college now, saving money on food is something I am very welcome to. Sometimes if the catch is good that day, the large Iguanas will feed me for three days straight, and I have gotten very effective and creative at making delicious dishes out of them. I think of them just as I do deer, pigs, ducks, lobster, and any other animal that you put work in to hunt for and harvest their delicious meat. Most people commenting think I have a hate for these lizards; they must think that deer hunters hate deer, and fisherman hate fish too. I am every kind of hunter/fisherman there is. I am an Ultimate Predator, and I am not alone. If there is an animal that yields meat and it's species has a healthy, stable population within reasonable traveling distance for me, I am going to hunt it, and harvest it. I do this first of all for the food, but also for the vast knowledge and experience that is gained through doing it. I feel that a being who can't survive on their residing land, let alone native land (humans on this earth), is the definition of an alien. I take every chance I can get to interact and learn more about the life this world has to offer, and strip down to my bare hands for the capture if possible, because you never know if you'll end up in a bad situation, in need of food, and have none of the cheating tools for capture that we humans enjoy so much today. Now I am not saying that I am constantly going around harvesting every animal encounter, and can honestly say I have harvested less than one percent of the wildlife I have interacted with. As a human I am an observer, learner, and handler, just as much as I am a hunter.
These large Iguanas are so plentiful and aggressive that I believe the only option is to harvest. We have a great opportunity here in South Florida right now with these invasive Iguanas though; an effective and efficient way to combat hunger in America. If we got as many able people as we could, and educated them on the situation, and trained them how to capture these lizards efficiently, we would have hundreds of pounds of meat coming in each day. That would make more of a difference than the government could ever hope to make themselves; not to mention relieve thousands of people from starvation! The government could easily set up a few carcass/meat drop facilities in South Florida to drop off meat, and for people who can capture lizards, but either don't want to or can't clean the lizards. The facilities would be manned with butchers who can quickly and efficiently strip the lizards of their meat and dispose of the cleaned carcass. I do my best to educate people and get them into the harvesting of these lizards, but just a few people can't make a difference. We the people have a legitimate opportunity here to make a difference that would change the lives of thousands, but it's up to you to act. I can't accomplish this alone.
Let me know what you think David Parker.
Again, Thank you.
Have a good day.
I do kill certain insects because they annoy the hell out of me. I won't hurt a Mantis because he won't bother me. I find it hard to believe you "like" iguanas better then I do, when you go around killing them. I have caught Anoles, Cuban Knight Anoles and yes small iguanas and kept them as very well fed, very well cared for pets for many years. I have not caught a full grown 20lb male iguana, but on the other hand I know If there was one on my property he wouldn't bull rush me and tear my face off in one quick motion. I could write a laundry list of animals in a similar size class that are more dangerous.
Some people might be ok with you killing them, I'd assume most are not, as you said they are often bothered enough to call someone... I'd use direct action. Judging by the comments section, most people are against you. You are trespassing, and like I said, I do hope some day you trespass on the wrong persons lawn, knife in hand running down some poor Iguana and all they see is a guy running across their property wielding a knife and you get whats coming to you. If you are going to keep doing this, at least stay off other peoples land because some people like me, and 70% of the people who viewed this like iguanas, and would welcome them on their property.
Have you any idea what the term invasive even means? You mention the term evolution, but your description of how you believe it works is the complete opposite. An invasion occurs within a short period of time (weeks or months), giving the resident flora and fauna absolutely no time to adapt to the invaders presence; allowing them to capitalize, and devastate. Evolution requires years, decades, and centuries of interactions between species. If a species is unable to evolve effectively, and adapt to survive with it's fellow inhabitants over these decades, then naturally, it will go extinct. The opportunity to make these adaptions is critical.
"Poor owls?" I guess you aren't aware that human destruction is responsible for habitat loss, resulting in the extinction of hundreds of species each day, and we aren't getting any new species any time soon. It's sad people like yourself would be satisfied with seeing only Iguanas on land, and only Lionfish in the ocean, because you like the way these animals look. Yes, animals migrate. You need to realize that a migration doesn't consist of a species taking a plane ride to a different part of the world. A migration happens naturally, and the migrating animals are restricted by climate and terrain that they are not suited for (until, over decades, evolution occurs). Now South Florida has the perfect climate for these lizards, and there is no doubt in my mind that they would have ended up living here naturally over years of migration. Natural disasters like hurricanes would have also eventually brought them to Florida on some sort of driftwood, but not in large numbers that would trigger an invasion. But during those years of migration, critical processes of adaption of predators targeting, and eating these lizards, and of plants either developing some sort of toxin, reproductive increase, or resistance would have occurred along the way. These opportunities for the native flora and fauna to adapt and evolve were bypassed through human intervention.
This is a problem. An attempt to at least control the population of these invaders is extremely necessary. I am not harvesting these Iguanas because "I don't like them," I guarantee I "like" them more than you do, and know them better than you know yourself. I am doing my part to correct the actions of uneducated people like yourself, releasing these animals because you can't take care of them or think they are better off in the wild. There isn't a person out there who would shoot me over catching the Iguanas that devoured their personal gardens that took time, and effort to grow. Or the Iguanas that repeatedly defecate on their pool decks and porches. I often get a thank you. Although, there are some people who haven't been directly effected by these lizards, and don't enjoy witnessing me harvest them. They often call the FWC, who I have been congratulated by, and repeatedly encouraged to keep doing what I'm doing. They tell me "there aren't many people that can do what I do, and we need people to do it."
I am not "murdering" these Iguanas. If anything, they are the murderers themselves. But that is a childish label to give them, so I won't go down to your level and start the unnecessary name calling. They don't know any better, they are just naturally capitalizing on an opportunity presented to them by careless people. About the Cuban Knight Anole, I am not one to engage in pointless killing, something people like yourself get satisfaction out of every time they kill a spider or some other type insect. The Anoles have a firm grip on South Florida with a very large population, and they yield no meat. I don't harvest these Iguanas because I kill them, I kill them because I harvest them.
I agree that the smaller Iguanas cam be tamed, but the large wild grown aggressive males would ram your cage until they couldn't see anymore because of all of the abrasions, and then probably ram it some more. Unless you are educated and willing to put in many hours, and take beatings from the large males, you aren't going to successfully tame them. I find it hard to believe that someone who catches Iguanas, (aside from the juvenile or frozen ones), as you claim to do, would know so little about how this world, and nature really works. Do me a favor and read this with an open, willing mind. Please do some research and save me the time of repeatedly explaining what is going on here, and what South Florida is dealing with to you and your friends.
Thanks.
So I can be clear, I don't mind a hunter killing 1 deer and eating it, but you are going out every chance you get to murder these amazing animals and just happen to eat them so you think it makes it ok, its not. BTW, the Cuban Anole in the end of the video is also invasive, why aren't you snapping his neck? Lastly, Iguanas are gentile. Yeah, they whip and bite in the first few hours you catch them, then they calm down. Same for all lizards. A few hours-a day max for them to get tame. How do I know? I used to catch them too, I just didn't, and never would kill them.
Eating em is really taste and good for the ecosystem.
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but iguanas, tegus, and the rampant ball pythons in Florida are due to a hurricane hitting a breeding facility, and even before that other tropical storms they float on plants clumped together pushed further north. Now the vast majority of the ones there are multiple generations of feral wild iguanas. you do realize an iguana femal can lay around 40 eggs in one clutch? my red iguana had her first clutch of unfertilized eggs. we threw them (the eggs) out. you have to realize how much an iguana eats in a day. it's no better than feeding stray cats and dogs. I love reptiles, don't get me wrong. I also understand their history.
in South America where they are from originally the are dubbed, "chicken of the bamboo", can you guess why? they are a primary source of meat. my personal belief is that it's easier for them to raise a farm of iguanas there then chickens due to rainforest predators and a chickens lack of proper defense against them. iguanas are tough. and he is hunting them on a closer level to what they have. he isn't shooting them he is actually hunting with a knife and his bare hands. which takes considerably more effort.
I will repeat myself. I do love reptiles. they are extremely smart compared to what people think. they have amazing personality and can have an amazing capacity for affection. Do I understand the damage they cause? yes. do I wish there was another option for him to use? yes. will I report him for trying to protect an ecosystem already in chaos? no.
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I need you to understand something. If you don't come to grips with the fact. Each generation of Iguanas not bred in captivity that don't have human interaction grow more and more "Feral" you misunderstand something. Iguanas will run as their first instinct. Females especially. But a "Bull" male with "Territory" (using this term loosely) will very easily become aggressive. Breeding season males are doubly dangerous. The ones caught by David may have more human interaction or something similar. Having experience with tame reptiles is not the same as wild and feeding iguanas is different. Next item of business. +Ultimate Predator is not wasting any part of the iguanas he kills so lay off the term killing he is hunting them for usable things
Eh.
ACTUALLY IT WOULD BE NICE IF ANYONE WOULD GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANIMALS LIKE I DO!!!!
I swear that I wouldn't give a fuck if you people would die in wildes while you would catch them becouse that is just something that you " HUMANS " deserve!
1. I hate anyone that kills 'for sport', for the sake of being a macho man that just kills any animal to feel like a man.
2. I am NOT against anyone that kills animals to feed their families, or to help feed the poor, because the meat, + the taking of the life of that animal won't be in vain.
3. I HATE the way chickens, cows, sheep, + other animals are treated by these 'factory farms', + wish there were laws against them. Eating meat is not the bad part, it's the way they are treated that I am against. I refuse to eat lamb, + veal because of the way these poor young animals are treated for all of their short lives.
In nature when an animal kills, it is never for sport, it is to survive, to eat., to live another day. Man, + primates are the only creatures that kill 'for sport'.
Something to think about.
By the way, all of my iguanas have come from rescues. Give these iguanas chance to have a home where they will be loved, + well cared for.
No women or children were harmed in the making of this video.
I have had pet iguanas as pets, + I loved them very much, + if you had done that to 1 of mine, I WOULD KILL YOU.
I would love to see how you would escape the jaws of a great white shark, or a t rex. Now that I would surely LOVE TO SEE!
Thank you for commenting I appreciate your input, but i sincerely hope you recognize what is actually going on here instead of misinterpreting the necessary actions for saving Florida's ecosystem while filling our stomachs.
empezamos con usted. sacrificarte a un oso. pero ante que el oso come a tu carne vamos a enseñar a orar al señor. dando gracias por los alimentos. Gloria a dios! praise Jesus!
Thanks for your comment I appreciate your input.
Perhaps you'd like to start with yourself.
Thank you for commenting i appreciate your input.