Posted on 06/02/2024 1:02:56 PM PDT by george76
Renee Aland said she thought the lizard was an alligator when she first saw it..
A massive, 5-foot-long lizard, presumed to be an Asian water monitor, was seen scurrying around a busy road in western Florida recently.
"He’s huge," Renee Aland can be heard saying in video she posted on social media of the lizard. "He’s just strutting across the road. He’s heading to the other side of the road."
When her daughter, Zoey Marzonie, asked if she should get closer to the lizard, her mother quickly answered, "Nope, just stay in the car."
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she called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and then waited to capture it on video because the agency wouldn’t make a report "without photographic proof."
Aland told WBBH-TV that she at first thought the lizard was an alligator.
"When we got closer, I looked, and I saw his tongue, [a] lizard tongue coming out, and I was like, 'Oh, crap, that's not a gator!'"
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The Asian water monitor is native to southern and Southeast Asia, but not the U.S. It is common as a pet and not illegal to own, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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one of the largest lizards in the world.
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A week earlier, another invasive species was spotted moving up the coast of the Sunshine State.
The Peter's rock agama has made its way north to parts of Central Florida, with residents of West Melbourne taking notice of the red-headed reptiles.
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The species is native to tropical, sub-Saharan Africa.
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“Big Lizard in my Back Yard”
by The Dead Milkmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k68Uz3w3x8&ab_channel=megafonzie666
Monitors are closely related to Komodo dragons, right?
“Zoey Marzonie”? Sometimes you have to wonder what kind of parent does that to a kid.
Is everybody in?
Is everybody in?
Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc9co0psCs
I can’t afford the food and upkeep on my Komodo Dragon. I’ll just set him free in the Everglades. Everything will be fine.
“Gators? And…Monitors?”
“…And pythons.”
“Oh, my!”
Monitors are carnivores: keep an eye on your pets.
Yup. It won’t be long. Another form of eco-terrorism.
Dumbassed swampbillies and their pets, and dumbassed cartel and their pets.
Florida, animal melting pot.
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).
No problem. Just bring in some honey badgers and let them loose to hunt down the monitor lizards. Problem solved.
Are they edible?
There may be some extra space available at the local Food Banks deep walk in meat freezer.
Not from around here, are you, Renee?
Easy to tell, folks who live here don’t call 911 for wildlife.
Like we need another invasive species, after what Xiao Bai Dung, The Pedo In Chief, has brought in.
Someone will make them edible for sure.
Ocala National Forest has a mean monkey population ...
If they can eat cane toads they are welcome to stay.
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