Watch Iguana Who Thinks He's A Crocodile!

Check out Pancho! He was an approx 12yr old Green Iguana at the time and was a new resident to the rescue. I set him outside to bask and swim in this garden pond for exercise, but he decided that he wanted to submerge completely below the water and take a long nap instead! He stayed down there for 2-3hrs and I only saw him come up to take one breath. After I saw just how much he loved being in deep water and sleeping on the bottom, I started to let him do it more often, or sometimes drew him a deep bath in the tub where I didn't have to worry about him climbing out and escaping, which he eventually did do, and was missing for an entire day, before I found him 20ft up in a nearby tree. Some iguanas love this. Others prefer shallower water. Most iguanas love the water, but younger and less familiar ones are usually stressed out by deep water until they get used to it a few times.

Pancho was a surrendered former pet. His owners had him for 12 years but lost their home to foreclosure and had to move into an apartment where he was not allowed. They did give a $300 donation to surrender him because he was too old and set in his ways to adopt out to most people, and they continued to donate something every few months for his extended care for the next couple of years. Pancho's health finally dwindled after being at the rescue for about 7 more years, and he died at age 19, in 2017. (This video was taken in approx 2009-10 on an old cheap digital camera and the file has been copied and converted many times, hence the bad audio quality.)

https://www.facebook.com/ReptileRescue/photos/a.151908998165219/1572837386072366

https://mewe.com/p/reptilerescuerehabilitation