Chaos erupts when a iguana was mistaken for crocodile

HAMMONDS FARM – RUSA officers were called out by a resident claiming to have spotted a Crocodile in her yard. The caller believed that the crocodile entered the residential property from a stream and through a bush at the rear of her home.

Reaction Officers were immediately dispatched. On their arrival, Officers were shown a picture captured by a neighbour. RUSA Members confirmed that it was not a Crocodile but an Iguana.

The reptile fled into a hole between a boundary wall and a neighbouring outbuilding that are centimetres apart. Reaction Officers spent several hours attempting to trap the reptile without success.

Officers thereafter removed a section of the boundary wall and captured the Iguana. It is believed that a second, much larger Iguana may have burrowed deeper between the walls of both buildings. The captured reptile was safely released.