OK, so maybe it wasn't a monitor lizard. As I can't tell a gecko from a lizard, or a frog from a toad, I probably can't tell a monitor lizard from common or garden tree climbing giant jingjok.

Anyone able to identify it?

He seemed to be after some fruit/berries/nuts on another tree, but he climbed up the wrong trunk.

Edited February 25, 201016 yr by JetsetBkk

Hi,

I think that you were correct in your first geuss at this being a monitor lizard.

Many years ago when I used to work in Pak Nam I used to see loads of these near the klongs on the way to work.

There are also quite a few in Muang Boran (The Ancient City) due to the water features there.

Do you live near water?

Regards,

Tiger.

Hi,

I think that you were correct in your first geuss at this being a monitor lizard.

Many years ago when I used to work in Pak Nam I used to see loads of these near the klongs on the way to work.

There are also quite a few in Muang Boran (The Ancient City) due to the water features there.

Do you live near water?

Regards,

Tiger.

This was why I wasn't sure if it was a monitor lizard as I know they are often found near water and I don't think there's much water where I saw him as it was near the top of a mountain. However, it had been raining earlier in the day, and when it does there's always a small torrent of water running down the road as the water drains off the ground, so he may have followed the water up to the top.

Many years ago when I used to work in Pak Nam I used to see loads of these near the klongs on the way to work.

Fascinating, where do these creatures work?

the head profile looks like a monitor lizard but the rest of it don't...they got a distinctive diamond pattern on their backs and they move quite clumsily and slowly (except when they are frightened then they are surprisingly fast on level ground)...we got loads of them in the marshland behind our house...

Many years ago when I used to work in Pak Nam I used to see loads of these near the klongs on the way to work.

Fascinating, where do these creatures work?

Many years ago when I used to work in Pak Nam I used to see loads of these near the klongs on the way to work.

Fascinating, where do these creatures work?

Nearly spat my tea! Had a mental picture of a line of monitor lizards singing "Hi, ho, hi, ho, it's off to work we go..."

OMG KILL IT KILL IT!!!

Definitely a monitor, quite a majestic chap ain't he.