Wine monitor

[Trithor]

Even lizards enjoy wine! On Saturday evening I went into the wine cellar to get a bottle for the table, to find that this Rock monitor (leguaan) had the same idea.



... and by the following morning he was curled in the corner of the dining room, way easier to chase him out the door from here!

 

[Justin]

wow. do they bite?

 

[Ray]

Only if they've been hitting the bottle and get cornered...

 

[JeanLux]

Now if he/she opened one of your Château Margaux bottles :drool: !!!! Jean

 

[Clark]

(f-bomb) Wild!!!

 

[NYEric]

Crazy! Thanks for sharing.

 

[TyroneGenade]

Yes, they do bite, and they don't let go, just thrash about until you lose a big chunk of yourself. Generally biting isn't needed. They will just whip you with their tail. That is normally ample to deter further contact.

 

[Heather]

Wow! and Ray...:rollhappy:

 

[SlipperFan]

I think I'd rather have a Gecko...

 

[cnycharles]

I think I'd rather have a Gecko...

Maybe some newts :/

 

[SlipperFan]

Maybe some newts :/

Or those...

 

[Ruth]

:rollhappy:Looks like you need to keep the wine rack full to keep them away.

 

[Trithor]

On his journey from the wine cellar to the dining room he stopped in the kitchen and ate my 6-pack of eggs from the counter top by the stove. These are incredibly good climbers. As Autumn approaches, we find often find them trying to make a winter burrow in the top apex of the house thatch roof. Often the first indicator of them taking up residence is a pile of thatching grass on the lounge floor.
This is a smallish one measuring around 1,2m. They climb vertical surfaces like house walls and trees with ease.
Ray, :rollhappy: too true!

 

[NYEric]

On his journey from the wine cellar to the dining room he stopped in the kitchen and ate my 6-pack of eggs from the counter top by the stove. This is a smallish one measuring around 1,2m. They climb vertical surfaces like house walls and trees with ease.

No way!

 

[Trithor]

No way!

Not uncommon to see a 2m lizard in trees along the Zambezi or other water courses (these are Nile monitors as distinct from this a rock monitor, not so distinct in reality)

 

[NYEric]

That's hilarious. Nature is a crazy thing.

 

[Heather]

That's what you get for leaving your eggs out on the counter!

 

[ALToronto]

I think I'd rather have a Gecko...

Geckos are awesome!



But I guess we can't expect reptiles to be cuddly. Great photos of the monitor, maybe it found an empty sleeve in your wine rack and was trying to make a nest?

 

[cnycharles]

maybe it found an empty sleeve in your wine rack and was trying to make a nest?

Maybe there were some tasty spiders or scorpions back there

 

[NYEric]

If you want cuddly get a Fat-tail or calm Leopard gecko.