Monitors are closely related to Komodo dragons, right?
According to Wikipedia, yes, and:
“The Asian water monitor has a natural affinity towards water, inhabiting the surroundings of lakes, rivers, ponds, swamps and various riparian habitats, including sewers, city parks, and urban waterways. It is an excellent swimmer and hunts fish, frogs, invertebrates, water birds, and other types of aquatic and amphibious prey.”
Another site states that they are docile and only defend themselves, either by whipping their attacker with their tails or by biting and injecting a mild venom. Either way can leave a person with a laceration and possibly some unwanted bacteria incompatible with a human’s system (after all, swimming in a sewer doesn’t bother them).
Like we need another invasive species, after what Xiao Bai Dung, The Pedo In Chief, has brought in.