I was
standing at my sink washing dishes. Suddenly the chickens were
squawking loudly! I looked up and saw a small green monitor lizard
(about a foot and a half long) trying to get into my egg lay-er's
cage. He could not, of course! The wires are too close together to
even allow a three-inch-in-diameter body through.
By
the time I was out with a broom, the lizard was high-tailing it out
of the fence to the underdeveloped hill slope beyond.
That
image brought back the memory of the monitor lizard we saw in Ipoh
many years ago. I was driving my children back from afternoon
activities in school. It was probably about four-thirty. A huge brown
monitor lizard (probably three to four feet long) was meandering
along the paved road intersecting the road in front of my house. It
was huge. Its body at the widest point was bigger than that of my
ten-year-old daughter (granted, she was a little on the skinny side).
I
banked my car as a group of Indonesian cooks (there was a catering
service in a nearby shop) crossed the road, chasing the monitor
lizard. Later we heard yells of victory—they
must have cornered and caught the lizard. It was considered a rare
delicacy.
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