Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles.
1Sightings have sometimes turned out to be something like a large monitor lizard.
2I bought a Nile monitor lizard there.
3A couple of metres to the left of where I shot this was a huge monitor lizard.
4In the taming of a monitor lizard he finds much amusement, recording his satisfaction-"Goannaquite friendly."
5The scientist's yellow-toothed smile was lordly yet repulsive, like a monitor lizard grinning after a large meal of diseased goat.
6I know a friend who has them, said stallholder Jurgen Schmidt, referring to the Latin name for the earless monitor lizard.
7I recall the day Gerry challenged Nikhil "the bodybuilder" to pull a monitor lizard that was half out of a burrow.
8Outside, in his chair on the veranda, a white monitor lizard sat and regarded him with its stony eyes, waiting for something to happen.
9Most of the crocodile pits were bare, but the monitor lizard pits were usually filled with trees which they could climb to the highest branches.
10There's also the opportunity to spot monitor lizards, monkeys and crocs.
11I also learnt how to handle monitor lizards, catch geckos and eat earthworms.
12The walkway ends in Lumpini park, which is home to huge water monitor lizards.
13In Tanzania's Dar-es-Salaam, local youths hunt prized monitor lizards for Chinese workers on building sites.
14The door guy entered the room, carrying cages of thirsty-looking monitor lizards, long tongues flicking.
15But Michael Cota, a member of the IUCN Monitor Lizard Specialist Group, was not so sure.
16Sometimes, I also handled monitor lizards.
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