Watch A Crafty Monitor Lizard Appear Like A Magician From Stone

Key Points

• In the wild, monitor lizards don’t typically display social behavior.
• The lizard’s owner was worried when he couldn’t find his pet, “Slinky”.
• He had been missing for a little while and the man thought Slinky may have been stolen.

You’d think a large monitor lizard wouldn’t make the greatest escape artist but somehow, the one in the video at the bottom of this page both scared its owner when it went missing and then delighted him when it reappeared.

How Big Do Monitor Lizards Get?

Monitor lizards can be found throughout Australia, Asia, and tropical regions of Africa. These large reptiles have muscular tails and legs along with long bodies, forked tongues, and strong claws. They’re active during the day when they hunt. What they eat depends on how big they are. On average, monitor lizards grow to about five feet long and weigh close to 200 pounds (though there are smaller species). However, some of these big lizards may grow over six feet long and may even weigh hundreds of pounds!

Are Monitor Lizards Friendly?

In the wild, monitor lizards don’t typically display social behavior. However, as pets, they have shown a remarkable ability to bond with their owners. There are different species of monitor lizards, not all of which make good pets. Even those that do require an awful lot of care and attention to live a healthy life. Although they can become trusting with their owners, they are still wild animals and are capable of seriously injuring you or others. Pygmy mulgas are highly revered as one of the friendliest monitor lizard species — these are dwarf monitors, however. Nothing like what you’re about to see in the video at the bottom of the page.

Relieved Man Finds ‘Slinky,’ His Monitor Lizard

We all name our pets in cutesy ways that mean something to us and for this man, Slinky was the perfect name for his monitor lizard. As the video below starts, the man is sharing that ‘somebody’ decided to give him a heart attack that day. As he’s speaking, he’s filming a stone-like structure that has an opening at the bottom with a small rip. Protruding from that small opening is the head of a rather large monitor lizard. Turns out, Slinky had exploited a weakness in the stone-like structure known as Universal Rocks.

Slinky managed to tear at it and find a nice little tunnel inside. He had been missing for a little while and the man thought Slinky may have been stolen. Any pet owner who has had a missing pet, if only for a few minutes, knows how the stomach sinks and heart rates get speedy. The man pans the camera over to the right to show the length Slinky traveled and marvels at Slinky’s strength to tear through and ability to squeeze through those tiny openings!

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