A large Asian water monitor lizard was chased up a telephone pole by several dogs in a village in the Sara Buri area of central Thailand. The huge lizard scaled the pole to get away from a pack of stray dogs that had attacked and bit it. But it got stuck and needed to be retrieved. The “Tua Hia,” also known as “Tua Ngern Tua Tong,” spent an hour wrapped around a pole outside a home in the Mueang region before drawing a crowd of locals.

Suwit Yaemubon, the homeowner, dispatched two rescuers to bring the monitor lizard back, but it wasn’t a simple job. The rescuers climbed a ladder, wrapped a rope around the lizard, and taped its mouth shut. The lizard was taken back down, placed on a motorcycle, and released in an area with less people where it shouldn’t be ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋed by soi dogs.

Suwit asserted that while strolling ᴄʟᴏsᴇ to his fence, he noticed the lizard sitting nearby. Then, out of concern that it could try to enter his home, he chased it away. The ʜᴜɴᴛ was joined by a pack of soi dogs, who bit the lizard as it ran up the pole.

In Tʜᴀɪʟᴀɴᴅ’s cities, monitor lizards and people frequently coexist. However, issues can appear on occasion. One of the largest Asian water monitors ever seen, weighing 100 kg, disrupted a home in the southern Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat in March. In May, a monitor lizard became lodged in a pipe in the Bang Khen area of Bangkok, causing a flood that considerably slowed down traffic.

Source: https://dailylifeworld.com