Hia Headcount: Public to Help Count Lumphini Park Lizards

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Photo: Kriti Sachdeva / Wikimedia Commons

 

BANGKOK — To settle a dispute over whether Lumphini Park is overrun with monitor lizards, two agencies will recruit the public to conduct the first proper census of the lumbering reptiles.

 

Bangkok’s City Hall believes there are as many as 400 monitor lizards and had asked the National Parks Department to remove some of them to keep the population in check. But the department’s director of wildlife conservation isn’t buying that number and on Saturday said a census involving more people would yield a more accurate figure.

 

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6 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The two agencies eventually decided to capitalize on the situation. They decided that it’s best to make an event out of it to attract both Thai and foreign park users and tourists to count the lizards

If they're so keen to count them, why don't they tag them all with a microchip?

Then they would avoid counting the same ones twice or more.

 

58 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

If they're so keen to count them, why don't they tag them all with a microchip?

Then they would avoid counting the same ones twice or more.

 

Watched an interesting programme on a sort of similar idea.

Ask two people to estimate the weight of a cow in a field and you will get two answers that can be wildly off.

Ask 200 people to do the same and then work out the average of all the answers and it's surprisingly accurate.

Count them? I didn’t see one the last time I was there after they did a clear out a year or so ago 

3 hours ago, bluesofa said:

If they're so keen to count them, why don't they tag them all with a microchip?

Then they would avoid counting the same ones twice or more.

 

Don´t spoil their big plan. They are going to take an entrance fee for the counting party.

Thais 10 baht, Foreigners 240 baht.

Edited September 2, 20187 yr by MrLuckyThailand

3 hours ago, overherebc said:

Watched an interesting programme on a sort of similar idea.

Ask two people to estimate the weight of a cow in a field and you will get two answers that can be wildly off.

Ask 200 people to do the same and then work out the average of all the answers and it's surprisingly accurate.

The power of mass averages.

6 minutes ago, hansnl said:

The power of mass averages.

Yep it does actually work.

6 hours ago, bluesofa said:

If they're so keen to count them, why don't they tag them all with a microchip?

Then they would avoid counting the same ones twice or more.

 

Are they also counting the two legged lizards in the park .

There’s four in my ex-wife’s immediate family. I can’t wait to tell my neighbors I’m going to the park “count hia”. 

For what it’s worth. I love you Thailand ?? 

46 minutes ago, AsiaHand said:

Are they also counting the two legged lizards in the park .

They count those ones in the police stations... 

Hia today and gone tomorrow......

8 hours ago, bluesofa said:

If they're so keen to count them, why don't they tag them all with a microchip?

Then they would avoid counting the same ones twice or more.

 

Problem with tagging them is that they would find out most just live in government house