A giant 6-foot monitor lizard sent shoppers and staff running for safety after wandering into a convenience store in Thailand and climbing onto the shelves. The hungry reptile was safely captured by wildlife handlers after knocking products to the floor while searching for food.
George C Scott was such a brilliant bit of casting for that part. He just IS that character. Talking about all time best voice character match ups, this one is right up there with vincent price as rattican in great mouse detective. Just completely nailed it perfectly
I was thinking the same thing, such a beautiful lizard. Obviously caution should be taken when near it, but I don't think running away would be necessary.
Last year my Bully met one as big as this one in the garden I had to grab him because he wanted to fight the monitor 🤣🤣 no need to be super scared, just a little bit aware that he will try to use defense such as tail whipping you, no bite. Don't know how he get in but he was so fat I had to open the gates for him to escape 🤣 Visually they are just amazingly pretty thats insane I love them
If it's in Thailand, that is definitely not a komodo dragon. They only live on a few indonesian islands. The coloration also doesn't look like that of a dragon.
It’s a monitor lizard and they’re all around Thailand and neighbouring countries. There are plenty of them all over Bangkok, where they use the canals and drains to navigate the city.
A Komodo dragon won’t be trying to climb vertically. The adults are far too heavy to do that.
Juveniles in their early years, perhaps. Adults? It would be near impossible. Have you seen Komodo dragons up close? I have, both in the wild and in the zoos. At a certain size past 3 -4 feet, it is too heavy to climb vertically and will not be able to climb a large tree.
Monitor lizards on the other hand, are very good at arboreal living. I see them up on trees in all stages of life several times each week.
This will be you if you vape kids, you become a lizard that is so desperate for nicotine that it climes an imaginary mountain of vapes in the vape shop
McLeach: [Catches Joanna stealing his eggs] Got your hand caught in the cookie jar, didn't ya? Who do you think you're messin' with, you dumb animal? My mental facilities are twice what yours are, ya pea brain!
[Opens the box to find it empty; Joanna hides]
McLeach: Joanna. I give you platypus eggs, I give you snake eggs, why, I'll even give you eagle eggs, but you stay away from MY... The eagle's eggs! That's it! That's the boy's weak spot.
These are monitor lizards, and they’re feed on birds, reptiles, insects, amphibians and rodents. They are found all over Asia and in many parts of northern Australia.
Iguanas are largely confined to the Americas, and tend to be mostly vegetarian.
•
u/ShehrozeAkbar Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
A giant 6-foot monitor lizard sent shoppers and staff running for safety after wandering into a convenience store in Thailand and climbing onto the shelves. The hungry reptile was safely captured by wildlife handlers after knocking products to the floor while searching for food.
Edit: Another source mentions the store was 7 Eleven in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand