Seems like it's no immediate danger to stateside inhabitants.
This lizard lives in East Singapore.
Yeah, but when Biden builds that railroad across the Pacific and Indian Ocean, you watch, they’ll find a way to sneak on that train.
“Seems like it’s no immediate danger to stateside inhabitants”
There is a problem there though.
Tampines Park is in the regional centre of the East Region of Singapore. With a population of 265,340 living across its five subzones, it is the second-most populous planning area in Singapore, according to the DOS Population Trends 2022.It is home to approximately 5% of Singapore’s population just over 13K people.
So there could be a lot of people that may come into contact with the lizard. And who’s to say it’s the only one. There is a zoo a couple of miles from the park but if it was a pet owned by someone and it, and maybe its friends, got loose, there is a certain amount of danger from them. Monitors are normally not aggressive but if they feel provoked or crowded, they will attack. They’re not poisonous like their cousins the Komodo but they do have long claws and sharp teeth.
wy69
“Seems like it’s no immediate danger to stateside inhabitants”
There is a problem there though.
Tampines Park is in the regional centre of the East Region of Singapore. With a population of 265,340 living across its five subzones, it is the second-most populous planning area in Singapore, according to the DOS Population Trends 2022.It is home to approximately 5% of Singapore’s population just over 13K people.
So there could be a lot of people that may come into contact with the lizard. And who’s to say it’s the only one. There is a zoo a couple of miles from the park but if it was a pet owned by someone and it, and maybe its friends, got loose, there is a certain amount of danger from them. Monitors are normally not aggressive but if they feel provoked or crowded, they will attack. They’re not poisonous like their cousins the Komodo but they do have long claws and sharp teeth.
wy69
SW Florida has Nile monitor lizards. They are an invasive species.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/reptiles/nile-monitor/