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monitor lizard news

Monsoon slither alert! What to do if you spot snake, monitor lizard, reptiles?

Sightings of reptiles like snakes and monitor lizards in Delhi-NCR households often spike during the monsoon months.
Published on Jun 20, 2025 12:32 pm IST

Monitor lizard meat found in abandoned bag in Kolkata hospital; probe on

Monitor lizards, a highly protected animal, are found across India but its population has been reportedly dwindling primarily due to habitat loss. (Representational image)
Published on Feb 15, 2025 09:57 pm IST

Snake in your backyard? Wildlife rescuers say don’t panic!

Wildlife rescuers take a snake back to its natural habitat, after it was spotted in an autorickshaw.
Published on Sept 24, 2020 12:25 pm IST

Monitor lizard spotted in a home in Delhi, people have thoughts

The image shows the monitor lizard in a house in Delhi.
Updated on Jul 10, 2020 05:52 pm IST

Dogs attack monitor lizard, reptile stands its ground. Watch

The image shows one of the dogs trying to bring down the monitor lizard climbing a tree.
Published on Jul 07, 2020 11:58 am IST

Fight between leopard and monitor lizard intrigues people. Watch

The video has intrigued many (representational image).
Updated on Feb 05, 2020 04:59 pm IST

Man caught smuggling live monitor lizards inside electronics

The man admitted to illegally importing more than 20 live water monitor lizards (representational image).
Updated on Jan 11, 2020 11:57 am IST

Python swallows, then throws up live monitor lizard. Surprise, it survives

While the lizard was unconscious at first, but slowly regained consciousness.
Updated on Jun 29, 2020 06:51 am IST

2 men arrested for selling genitalia of monitor lizards in Gurugram

The suspects sold hatha jodi (dried genitalia of monitor lizards) and protected seashells, both banned in the country.
Updated on Jul 28, 2019 03:22 am IST

Brave birds protect their eggs from monitor lizard in Ranthambore. Watch incredible video

The Bengal Monitor lizard was after a clutch of eggs laid by a Red Wattled Lapwing.
Updated on Jun 04, 2020 10:33 pm IST

Man held with monitor lizard skin bag at Delhi’s IGI airport

An Algerian man was arrested at the Delhi airport on March 27 for carrying a bag made of a monitor lizard’s skin.
Published on Apr 05, 2019 11:23 am IST

Biodiversity park exemplifies sustainability, too valuable an asset to lose, say experts

The campaign to save the Aravalli Biodiversity Park (ABDP) continued to gain momentum on October 30.
Updated on Nov 03, 2018 04:17 pm IST

10-foot-long python rescued from Gurugram’s DLF-5

The python was around 8 years old and weighed over 10 kg.
Updated on Sept 11, 2018 09:59 am IST

Five blackbucks dead as infighting breaks out among herds at Delhi Zoo

The noise of hammers breaking the night shelter of the blackbucks, dumping of cement bags and the scattered debris traumatised the animals inside Delhi zoo (pictured), which reportedly then started to fight among themselves.
Updated on Aug 24, 2018 08:23 am IST

Five monitor lizards, three snakes rescued from residential areas in Gurugram

An eight-year-old five-feet-long male Indian Rock Python rescued by wildlife activists at Kadarpur CRPF camp.
Updated on Jun 30, 2018 03:16 pm IST

When Sanjay Dutt cried 3 years after his mother’s death!

File photo of film actor Sanjay Dutt.
Updated on Mar 18, 2018 04:33 pm IST