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Oh my goodness, what the heck is it?
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It is a lace monitor. We call them commonly goannas. You may have heard of them as aboriginal food. They can grow to 2.1 metres long and weigh up to 20kgs. This fellow was much smaller than that but I have seen large ones and they are pretty impressive.
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Magnificent lizard! Are they dangerous? Aggressive?
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They’ll bite when cornered but would prefer to skooot up a tree rather than confront you. When they get going they can really move. The bite has always been reported to be recurring for years after the event (don’t know the truth of this) and they always become infected initially. I read a report that they have now found that it has a venemous bite and they are now saying the infective reaction is now an envenemation reaction. Not fatal though and I love seeing them in the wild. There were some living at a truck stop we used to have a prawn sandwich at and they were huge. I always felt as though I was eating in Jurassic Park.
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What a lovely goanna! My grandmother had a blue tongued lizard/ goanna in her garden when we were kids, and they are wonderful. We believed it kept the snakes away, don’t know whether that is true, but we believed it did!
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Yes I don’t know whether it is true or not either. Their diet certainly includes reptiles and eggs. You feel more comfortable believing that so I am happy not to investigate that aspect further. 🙂
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Ker-ikey, Irene ! That’s almost the size of a bloody MONITOR ! Or is it just that I’m not used to seeing lizards that stand up on their legs like that ?
A beauty, m’dear ! 🙂
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This was a lizard with a mission and you are right it is a monitor. Thanks 🙂
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Wow…definitely not something we would see taking a walk in the English countryside. Love it!
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Ah but we don’t get to see squirrels and badgers and moles and hedgehogs
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Ah yes…’tis true that 🙂
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