MIAMI SPRINGS IGUANA HISTORY World famous South Florida fishing guide Captain Charlie Thompson brought back 3 iguanas from a South America trip & presented them to Glenn Curtiss’s Hialeah Zoo in the early 1920’s. In 1924 the zoo was moved from the north bank of the Miami Canal to the south side (now Hook Square in Miami Springs). The iguanas promptly escaped & now number in the thousands. This slow motion video of a giant iguana was recently taped on nearby Canal St in Miami Springs just up the

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