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Varanus salvator
World's second heaviest lizards, the water monitor has a prettily patterned skin.
There is this small path connecting an old residential building (once used to store tax in the 1800s) leading to the main road. I was walking along it when a local kid pulled at my hand and hissed...Go-saap (Water monitor in Bangla) ...and so it was...it crossed in front of me ...entered a dry ditch and thence to two bodies of algae covered ditches full to the brim with water. I saw it the next day swimming in the pond attached to the house...photos being posted separately.
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Thank you, torchclubhsac.
It was wonderful indeed. These are not as common as they used to be.
That’s very awesome to find a water monitor lizard.
Thank you Dawn...these
Animals can swim well too.
That is an awesome find! We really enjoyed learning about the water monitor (on land).