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I been studying my different families of Varanus niloticus to you Nile Monitors to me, wedgie mabel tiny ect...here is one of the males 40ft away :

He will be well over 4ft long.
There seems to be about 4 large 2 medium and at least four tiny ones, here a tiny one sunbathing..

- And a beautiful dragonfly keeping him company in the sun!

It is nice that you keep an eye on them!

Someone caught a varan in the Nile and tried to sell him for LE 200 after parading him to show off and scare everybody for some days. The poor animal was fed boiled eggs, that couldn't pass the leash, so he got strangled .

Here's a view looking Northish..:

Here's a view looking southish..:

and hardly a shoe in sight........

Looks as though you may have a few namoos issues there with all that water - I have a man that can, ants, sorsar, all. Will give you his number and he is close to us. He exterminates (Excuse the pun) all the nasties on the cruise ships, houses in villages here on the West and hotels we all frequent.......... The monitor outside my front door was about 1.5 feet long - stairs are no problem for the blighters to scale. It's very lucky to have one in the house my landlord tells me :-) Sadly Mona Monitor is halas and in Monitor Heaven.

I'll buy any monitor/warren any size for cash as long as it's alive 'you heard it here first "we pay cash on the nose......www.warrenesisus.com........

Now I know what a warren is! It's one of those give-you-a-start creatures the local kids call alligators. Looks an idyllic site for a spot of Sunday afternoon viewing, though!

TonyC wrote:Now I know what a warren is! It's one of those give-you-a-start creatures the local kids call alligators. Looks an idyllic site for a spot of Sunday afternoon viewing, though!

- They call them alligators , but when they try to sell you one, or get you to buy them one - they are genuine, rare Nile crocodiles.

I have devised a measuring method a 1ltr coke bottle is just under a foot long, So one warren I've spotted is over 6ft long give or take a bottle cap...

For every picture I take I mess up 10 in excitement most are beginning to look like 'loch-ness monster pic's, I took six shoots of a smaller 4 incher climb a tree until it could drop into the canal another 4 footer popped up 5 ft away whist on long focus, but this is a medium sized one I took 10 minutes ago:

Nice photos Doc just watch your toes!
If your camera has a threaded lens, try using a 'polarised ' filter, it will cut out the glare and let you see through the water and your varren will be a lot clearer, I am sure that Stan will fix you up with one

Why are you sitting in that Egyptians lap?

Sitting 'watchin me warrins just now, as you do......

as you do book, fags, 2 bttls, ice ect, fish-food, bottle opener! drat.....
bumped into 'her next door Aida with 9 kids in tow, between 6 mnths and 6 years 8 little girls and one boy cost me 16 sweets but remembered the bottle opener.
Anyhow these warrens the old Varanus niloticus seem to have a large territory and it seems that they don't bother each other too much so perhaps it's a big extended family, perhaps...
Heres a different one:

What lovely warrens

When I first built the corniche the chaps caught this baby with a large hook in it's front claw, we removed it with gloves and pliers and popped him or her into the small canal:

I've decided to affix markers in the canal so' I can try to accurately measure them,
this one must be nearly 5ft judging by the boat, the tails normally longer than the bodies:

Meanwhile I've been observing two fish take on all comers trying to protect their brood/fry from all & everything trying to eat them, fascinating.......

BOTTLE ALERT!
Went over to the dark side shopping this afternoon. We noticed huge rafts of plastic bottles coming in you direction on the front canal. You could get buried in them in the next few days. Might spoil your very pleasant vista

Here is a little 4" fellow that Floridians purchase as house pets, little realizing it will grow into a 5'-6' foot monster, but that's yanks for you......
dumb as f*** but saving our World.....

Two boys were throwing stones at one, but kept missing . They instructed a cute little brother in a ghallabeiya, but he had no control over the stone at all. They were having a wonderful time, which is so difficult to comprehend and very hard to witness or to regard anything but cruelty . The little one threw a stone high up in the air so forcefully that he turned around, fell backwards and cried. But there was no sympathy from the brothers, they were jumping up and down, celebrating - the stone had hit the poor varan after all their failed attempts . So strange, so very strange, so difficult to understand, impossible to tolerate..


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