Neighbors: More monitors
Here’s my best shot of the water monitor who lives across the road from the apartment block:
He’s about six feet long in total.
Here are pictures our offspring took of a water monitor in its natural element, at Sungeh Buloh:
I think this guy is a mere 3 feet long. But these are better close-ups; you can see its stripes, and below you can see some of its skin wrinkles around the neck nicely:
Hard to get them to pose for you, really. The ones on campus are shy, although the ones at the reserves seem pretty cocky and relaxed. But they don’t really smile for the camera – and if they did, the ambient humidity would make it hard to capture the grin anyway.