It is about time too. We have taken their habitat, their food sources and pushed them further away until there is not much left for them. We have locked them up for our pleasure, or for them to serve us. At last, at least for a few months more anyway, the tables have been turned. It is their turn to roam free while we are locked up.
It was a nice surprise to see this huge monitor lizard just resting in the hot sun in our back yard. It was as big as a komodo dragon. Thank God there was a fence to keep it out.
Monster of a lizard in my backyard
We never "kill" any of the wild life, just let them move in their own space.
Komdoa Dragons in Indonesia
We live beside a small
rubber estate so these lizards, monkeys and snakes are common. In fact, we have
our own resident junior monitor lizard who lives in our garden. It basks on the rocks in the sun (fantastic camouflage with the rocks) every afternoon and this drives Thory crazy.
Savvy K christened it Bobbi (probably after a past boyfriend ...haha.. joking Savvy K, I know you occasionally sneak into my blog).
Thory tries to be friends and looks out for Bobbi every day at
the same place. In 2005, an article in New Scientist, a Science and Technology magazine, reported that monitor
lizards produce venom, contrary to past belief that their bites only cause
bacterial infections.
OK Thory, you cannot be besties with Bobby. I suggest a long
distance relationship. But he won't listen!!
Video taken from Whatsapp
I have been thrilled to see the animals reclaiming the world. As you say, they have had the short end of the straw for two long. I didn't realise that monitor lizards could climb, but our goannas (which also can get fairly large) are experts.
ReplyDeleteLove your dog keeping watch - and a safe distance.
was quite surprised to read that goannas are a protected species in Australia, not here in Malaysia.
DeleteEven the animals need the social distancing like thory and bobbi here. haha… though every life is precious, we can’t appreciate this change quite from the sufferings and deaths of lot. We should have kept thoughts of wildlife and environment when sought our comfort and I think this outbreak is also the peak of harmful we do to the earth and now it’s returning us and confined to home to help others experience the lands they left out. That monitor lizard looks scary and such wild animals around home will at least hold people inside. haha… thanks for the visit
ReplyDeleteI agree we have learnt quite a bit from this period, that wild life is indeed precious and we should share our world with them.
DeleteIt very much a changing world
ReplyDeleteBut a good change for sure
DeleteThory and Bobby need to socially distance. Even a mask wouldn't be much help.
ReplyDeleteGlad Thory cannot climb up the rocks cos he looks out for Bobbi every day, have to train him to understand social distancing as you suggested
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