This semester I am taking a Vertebrate Zoology class and the professor introduced us to a Facebook page, " Wildlife Issues " that has been a useful resource for keeping up with current events in conservation. For this week's blog post I was browsing the page and was surprised by a header on the timeline: " Florida's Solution to its Invasive Iguana Problem: Smash their Skulls in ". Despite it's gory implications, the disposal of these iguanas is definitely a necessity, as explained in the article by the Washington Post . The Iguanas were originally native to a broad area ranging from Mexico to South America to the Caribbean and were brought to Florida as pets around 1966. Since then they have spread from Miami to the Keys and as far as Palm Beach. To address the “smash their skulls in” portion, many biologists are going out with bolt guns to kill the iguanas, while the in-the-head portion is to reduce the suffering of the animals. The reason there is...