10kg monitor lizard found in Phuket home

Phuket Gazette

 

The Khao Phra Thaeo Wildlife Sanctuary identified the creature as a varanus salvator, commonly known as the ‘water monitor lizard’. Photo: Winai Sarot

 

PHUKET: -- A 10kg monitor lizard was released into a forest after it was found in a foreigner’s house in Thalang yesterday.

“We received a request from the owner of the house to help catch the lizard in Baan Suan Neramit 5, Srisoonthorn sub-district. When we arrived, it was hiding somewhere in the house,” said Pongpan Juanan of Kusoldharm Foundation. 

“It was quite a big one, so we had to prepare the right equipment first. It took us about 30 minutes to capture it,” he added. 

 

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Seen many of these up close (From the car) boy look like aligators or HISO from BK

Looks maybe five feet long?