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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.

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?

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

i dunno i watched it again and maybe its a chuckwalla

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

^Yeah monitor lizard or chuckwalla.

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

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.

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

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

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