The Green Iguana in the Butterfly House Iguana iguana

Green Iguana
Green Iguana
Green Iguana
This particular Green Iguana had lived for many years in a Butterfly House (at Icod, Tenerife). Since the house was heated to a tropical climate and iguanas are vegetarian, he was happy there. One day there was a fire incident and the firemen required all personnel and livestock to temporarily leave the building.
Green Iguana
Dragon
No-one was brave (or strong) enough to carry the big iguana out, so they ushered him up the slope, through the heavy plastic strips of curtain and onto the street outside.
He sat basking in the warm sunshine on the warm stone pavement until the all clear was given and he was ushered back through the curtains and down the slope back home.
Green Iguana
Common Iguana
Every day thereafter, for the rest of his life, he climbed the slope of his own accord, went through the curtains and sat warming himself in the sunlight (for most of the year when there was sunlight), much to the amusement of passers by. When he was ready to go back down, he would return of his own accord into his heated Butterfly House.
Green Iguana
Green Iguana