Swearing expected to diminish after "annoying" water monitors rounded up in Samut Songkram

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Swearing expected to diminish after "annoying" water monitors rounded up in Samut Songkram

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

National parks authorities have rounded up 49 hefty water monitors who had been annoying the locals in the marsh areas of Samut Songkram.

 

The locals have been cussing about the beasts that will eat virtually anything - and not just because the word for a water monitor is one of the foulest insults in the Thai language.

 

The protected population has grown and grown recently and the monitors have been eating chickens, ducks and eggs belonging to the human residents of the province to the south west of Bangkok.

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Staff from the Phanthai Norasingh national park were sent in with traps and other know how to round up the monitors that will now be examined for health reasons before being released elsewhere in nature, reported Manager.

 

Water monitors - known politely in Thai as "tua ngern tua thong" (the silver and gold beast) are a protected species in Thailand. They are a kind of lizard and a smaller version of the famed Komodo Dragons of Indonesia.

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

You need a permit to even look after them.

 

Violators who hunt or trap them face 4 years in jail and fines of 40,000 baht or both.

 

 

Source: Manager Online

 

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[JustAnotherFarang]

Well we are all "sat here" reading this article

[roo860]

Well we are all "sat here" reading this article

I hear what you are saying.

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[Get Real]

Fascinating animal. Good that they actually do something to replace them, due to that they can cause both damage and scare to the Thai people.

Actually good that they are protected too, so that more generations can be intrigued by theese kind of prehistoric dinosaurs.

[mwbrown]

Purely to enhance my Thai language skills, what is the more commonly used word for water monitor?  Thanks in advance!  

[Slip]

3 minutes ago, mwbrown said:

Purely to enhance my Thai language skills, what is the more commonly used word for water monitor?  Thanks in advance!  

Ai hiia.

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, Slip said:

Ai hiia.

Much more discussion here:

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/194011-what-does-this-mean/

 

[tilaceer]

7 hours ago, Slip said:

Ai hiia.

Ai (อ้าย) is only used to insult males....for the ladies you use ee...(อี)....

Suggest you never use them....highly offensive....

[Slip]

8 minutes ago, tilaceer said:

Ai (อ้าย) is only used to insult males....for the ladies you use ee...(อี)....

Suggest you never use them....highly offensive....

Actually I've never heard the female version used.  And of course as you correctly point out the 'ai' part isn't really relevant when talking of the lizards.  

 

I have a quite large group of middle aged friends and it is hilarious when they go out on the piss and start yelling it at each other at the tops of their voices.  All in good fun though. It is indeed a very dangerous and insulting thing to call someone you on't know well, or even a friend if said in anger.

[MyFriend You]

Off to the resturant they go hey?????  Protected??  not in rural Thailand, taste good fried with Coconut water, no they don;t taste like chicken, they taste like Lizard.

[sangtip2]

I have had them in my pond    off  and on  for  20 years  ----  they can stay here as long as they like.    I wish my dog didn't chase them   maybe they would stay for ever. 

[tonray]

On 2/23/2018 at 4:21 AM, Get Real said:

so that more generations can be intrigued by theese kind of prehistoric dinosaurs.

For a second I thought you were talking about the farangs in lower Sukhumwit.