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Posted by desiree on January 10, 2003 at 00:10:04:
1/9/2003
IGUANA GET RANDY..
By Gary O'Shea
ZOOS are being overrun with iguanas dumped by owners fed up with their cravings for sex.
The RSPCA said 370 people begged them to take the lizards off their hands last year.
Many of the reptiles were bought as babies measuring a few inches after the movie Jurassic Park was released in 1993.
But now they have grown to around 6ft and try to mate with women owners.
Expert Stella Quayle said: "They sense the hormonal change in a woman when she is about to start her period.
"It's not funny if you're an iguana, and it's even less funny if you're a woman. They can really hurt.
"They bite as they try to hold on, they scratch you and they will keep trying to mate with you."
Stella, pictured left with two iguanas, is curator at the Beaver Water World in Kent which is home to 18 of the dumped reptiles.
One of the lizards lashed out at Stella, cutting her nose as she spoke to the Daily Mirror.
The RSPCA said it has run out of zoos to house the lizards and many now face a death sentence.
Inspector Ian Gough said last night: "I predict we'll find ourselves having to put more and more of them to sleep."
