I didn’t know that about the monitor lizards. I’ll tell you that when you’re eating in a pleasant outdoor restaurant in Southeast Asia and one of those suckers comes strolling past your table, you do take notice.
We stayed at Las Hades in Manzanillo Mexico a few times. They have an iguana sanctuary or something there. You can be sitting on a chair by the pool and one or a couple of those huge suckers will come lay under your chair for the shade. They’re all over the pool area. Hubby always laughed but they unnerved me. I couldn’t really fall asleep or relax because when I did I’d wake up and those suckers would be under my chair. Lol