Several dogs chased a large Asian water monitor lizard up a telephone pole in a village in the Sara Buri district in central Tʜᴀɪʟᴀɴᴅ. After being chased and bit by a pack of stray dogs, the enormous lizard climbed the pole, but it got stuck and had to be rescued. A crowd of locals gathered after the “Tua Hia,” also known as “Tua Ngern Tua Tong,” spent an hour twisted up on a pole outside a home in the Mueang district.
The ғᴇᴀʀ among the villagers was that the creature may be electrified and perish like three slow lorises in Songkhla province. On the other side, the villagers were concerned that the large animal may ᴅᴀᴍᴀɢᴇ the village’s electrical infrastructure and cause a power outage.
The home’s owner, Suwit Yaemubon, sent two rescue workers to retrieve the monitor lizard, but it wasn’t an easy task. The rescuers scaled a ladder and secured the lizard’s mouth with tape after wrapping a rope around it. After being brought back down, the lizard was mounted on a motorcycle and released in a less populated area where it shouldn’t be ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋed by soi dogs.
Suwit claimed that he saw the lizard sitting nearby while wandering ᴄʟᴏsᴇ to his fence. He then chased it away out of ғᴇᴀʀ that it may try to break into his residence. A pack of soi dogs joined the ʜᴜɴᴛ and nipped the lizard as it ran up the pole.
In Tʜᴀɪʟᴀɴᴅ’s urban areas, monitor lizards and people typically cohabit together. However, problems can occasionally occur. In March, a home in the southern Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat was disturbed by one of the largest Asian water monitors ever recorded, weighing 100 kg. In Bangkok’s Bang Khen area in May, a monitor lizard got stuck in a pipe and caused a flood that significantly slowed down traffic.
source: dailylifeworld.com
