Plumlee comes home to find huge lizard in pool

Post #1 » by **bwgood77** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:30 pm

At first I thought this was an alligator, but I don't know what it is.

http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2014/ ... n-his-pool

Actually, looking at the video on instagram, I guess this was posted two months ago. I guess Brightside was a little late with this, but I don't remember it being posted.

RunDogGun · Post #2 » by **RunDogGun** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:39 pm

bwgood77 wrote:At first I thought this was an alligator, but I don't know what it is.

http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2014/ ... n-his-pool

From the title, I was expecting a drunk Tucker swimming in a Godzilla costume. What...too soon?

BringinDaRuckus · Post #3 » by **BringinDaRuckus** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:04 pm

Looks like a Gila Monster. You get a few of those around on the outskirts of city limits.

Post #4 » by **lilfishi22** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:18 pm

BringinDaRuckus wrote:Looks like a Gila Monster. You get a few of those around on the outskirts of city limits.

I don't live in Arizona but positive that isn't a Gila monster.

BringinDaRuckus · Post #5 » by **BringinDaRuckus** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:19 pm

lilfishi22 wrote:
BringinDaRuckus wrote:Looks like a Gila Monster. You get a few of those around on the outskirts of city limits.

I don't live in Arizona but positive that isn't a Gila monster.

Yeah, you are probably correct.

Maybe some sort of desert iguana? :dontknow:

Post #6 » by **lilfishi22** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:22 pm

Yeah I was thinking some sort of iguana. Pretty cool but

NoKneeBledsoe · Post #7 » by **NoKneeBledsoe** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:48 am

Animal Abuse

jcsunsfan · Post #8 » by **jcsunsfan** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:28 am

It's a chuckwalla. I used to catch them as a kid.

Gorilla Warfare · Post #9 » by **Gorilla Warfare** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:10 am

Definitely a chuckwalla. He probably lives near South Mountain, that area is littered with them.

jcsunsfan · Post #10 » by **jcsunsfan** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:22 am

There are bunches if them on Piestewa peak too. I didn't know they could swim like that.

Thegorillasrules · Post #11 » by **Thegorillasrules** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:32 am

I'm about 98% certain that is someone's pet iguana.

Zelaznyrules · Post #12 » by **Zelaznyrules** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:47 am

It's definitely not a Gila Monster. It does look a little like a Chuckwalla but from my memory the tail is all wrong - maybe there's a skinny tailed version I'm unfamiliar with? I don't see the spines on the head and neck that you typically see with an Iguana but it's not a great angle. And it's not a Komodo Dragon. I'm curious about it but I'm at a loss. Anybody know for sure or have another guess other than those that have so far been floated? Maybe it was just a regular old lizard owned by a Seattle Seahawks player that routinely shared his steroids with it?

aIvin adams · Post #13 » by **aIvin adams** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:20 am

I'm in the def not a Gina monster / prolly not a chuckwalla camp.

It does look like an iguana but if there's an iguana out here I've never heard of it. Maybe its a pet that got loose?

aIvin adams · Post #14 » by **aIvin adams** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:54 pm

i dunno i watched it again and maybe its a chuckwalla

JayMKE · Post #15 » by **JayMKE** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:15 pm

looks like a pet iguana or monitor lizard to me, don't think it is native

Post #16 » by **TASTIC** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:08 pm

^Yeah monitor lizard or chuckwalla.

Possibly Chris Bosh. But I'm not sure if he's a swimmer.

jcsunsfan · Post #17 » by **jcsunsfan** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:18 pm

Zelaznyrules wrote:It's definitely not a Gila Monster. It does look a little like a Chuckwalla but from my memory the tail is all wrong - maybe there's a skinny tailed version I'm unfamiliar with? I don't see the spines on the head and neck that you typically see with an Iguana but it's not a great angle. And it's not a Komodo Dragon. I'm curious about it but I'm at a loss. Anybody know for sure or have another guess other than those that have so far been floated? Maybe it was just a regular old lizard owned by a Seattle Seahawks player that routinely shared his steroids with it?

Yes. You are right. The chuckwalla's tail is shorter and thicker. I am thinking it is a spiny-tailed iguana. They have been introduced around the Sonora desert museum but their range is thought to be the Tucson area only. If they have moved this far north it would be news to AZGFD.

Moochthemonkey · Post #18 » by **Moochthemonkey** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:42 pm

TASTIC wrote:^Yeah monitor lizard or chuckwalla.

Possibly Chris Bosh. But I'm not sure if he's a swimmer.

Could be, but I'm pretty sure the C. Bosh species is endangered and there has been only 1 documented sighting in recent memory in the South Beach area. In fact the city of Miami recently spent 118 million dollars to contain the said species in that area for the next 4 years...but perhaps McD has something up his sleeve

jcsunsfan · Post #19 » by **jcsunsfan** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:52 pm

Moochthemonkey wrote:
TASTIC wrote:^Yeah monitor lizard or chuckwalla.

Possibly Chris Bosh. But I'm not sure if he's a swimmer.

Could be, but I'm pretty sure the C. Bosh species is endangered and there has been only 1 documented sighting in recent memory in the South Beach area. In fact the city of Miami recently spent 118 million dollars to contain the said species in that area for the next 4 years...but perhaps McD has something up his sleeve

I don't think the neck is long enough to be a c.bosh.

http://www.rantsports.com/nba/files/201 ... s-Bosh.jpg

Gorilla Warfare · Post #20 » by **Gorilla Warfare** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:01 am

This is what our offseason has come to...talking about a lizard that made it's way into Miles' pool 2 months ago.