Video Shows Lizards Cuddled On FL Window For Warmth: Watch

PORT ST. LUCIE, FL — A group of lizards recently were captured on video seemingly cuddled together on a South Florida window while trying to get warm.

In a TikTok video that's been viewed more than 2.7 million times, Jessica Schreck of Port St. Lucie showed off 13 lizards and frogs huddled on her window pane as "Baby, It's Cold Outside" plays in the background.

"The lizards and tree frogs are seeking warmth," Schreck wrote over the video.

Below the video, Schreck captioned it, "The reptiles of South Florida are not ok."

Schreck told WFLA she took the video Sunday night when the low temperature reached about 56 degrees.

“My first reaction was, ‘Aww, they’re cute, they’re cuddling in my window for warmth!'” Schreck told WFLA on Wednesday.

Schreck told WFLA she had never seen lizards on her windows before, but since Sunday, they've returned every evening.

Since lizards and frogs are cold-blooded, they likely were congregated for necessary warmth on what Schreck confirmed in the video's comments was a west-facing window. Reptiles like lizards and snakes will alternate between basking in the sun and resting in the shade to keep their body temperatures within a range that allows them to stay active.

If the temperature drops to a certain range — the “magic number” is 45 degrees — reptiles like iguanas become inactive, meaning they’re more likely to fall from trees and other high places in which they might be sleeping or hiding.

But don't worry — the cold won’t likely kill them.

“To people who are new to Florida and aren’t used to seeing large lizards lying down on the ground, they look like they might be dead, but they’re actually not," Dermot Bowden, president of the South Florida Herpetological Society, told Patch earlier this year.

If anyone comes across a cold-stunned iguana, “the best thing to do is just leave them the way they are,” he said. “They will recover.”