>country
>do you randomly find alligator sized lizards in your backyard
Sri Lanka.
Yes, they climb over and eat cats
>country. >do you randomly find alligator sized lizards in your backyard
>country
>do you randomly find alligator sized lizards in your backyard
Sri Lanka.
Yes, they climb over and eat cats
Sweden.
Biggest reptile I've seen in the wild was an armlength grass snake. So no. Biggest lizard was a fist sized toad.
>Biggest lizard was a fist sized toad.
8/8
No lizards where I live. Only coons trying to kill my chickens.
you are what you eat
> Yes, they climb over and eat cats
HOLY BASED
USA, NJ
No giant lizards, pretty big snapping turtles if you go into certain parks/reservations. The only lizard I have seen are some type of skink. Once some butthole released a pet alligator in a reservoir.
>country
US, Florida
>do you randomly find alligator sized lizards in your backyard
Yes. They're alligators. They swim back and forth in a pond and don't hurt anyone.
>>do you randomly find alligator sized lizards in your backyard
what an oddly specific question.
>England
The only lizard I've ever found was a really small slow worm when I was digging a hole in my garden
Back where we used to live on a bushland property (only like 15km from current location), while wandering around one morning I came across at least a metre long lace monitor (or tree goanna they're called here) just sitting up in the grass getting some sun. Only one I ever saw there in 12 years there though.
This isnt the biggest lizard I've seen here (there's actually a greener ones that are larger), but it was quite big for these types of wall lizards, and I nicknamed him "Godzilla".
Oops, forgot my countey!!
Portugal
You can find these homies in literally every house at Brazil.
Basedtugal
Invasive species?
So many tourists seething constantly about the existence of cats, why do they come to this cat website?
That’s hardly tourist behaviour. Catgay/doggay bullshit has been going on for years
No, the toxohomosexualry is a new thing. It started when gaymercancer brought in all the teenage boys that will believe literally any fad they hear on the internet.
A new thing doesn’t necessarily equal a newbie though
Yes it does. New fads on the internet that are based on low IQ misunderstandings of science are always wrong. Stop being so Reddit. It's painfully cringe to watch.
>tourists
>cat website
>reddit
>newbie
Stop outing yourself like that
>toxohomosexualry is a new thing
It's been around for at least 5 years
Yeah, the popsci article they all read is at least that old.
>5 years
>not newbie garbage
If you started browsing Wauf during the last 10 years you are a newbie and should go back
lol nyancat and caturday amirite my fellow oldfig XDDD
indeed
excellent bear repellent come to think of it
Southeastern US. There aren't any big lizards here which is kind of weird. Florida has iguanas but those are not native, idk why the only native lizards are tiny the southeast seems like a good place for lizards
It is a good place for lizards, but it wasn't until recently. Earth is just coming out of an ice age, so reptiles haven't had much time to get reestablished in the American Southeast (except for the recently extinct giant tortoises). It's no coincidence that one of the Southeast's most common lizards, the green anole, is virutally unchanged from its Caribbean cousins besides being a bit more cold-tolerant. If we had paused human development before it started for a million or two years, explorers discovering South Florida would probably find Cyclura and Chilabothrus (Caribbean boas) living there.
>mfw 10,000 years ago there was an enormously large block of ice a mile tall that wiped away everything underneath it and our ecosystem has only started slowly recovering since then
Am I the only one who thinks this is horrifying? North America came back from being a blank slate literally yesterday on a geological scale which is why we lack as much diversity in reptiles and stuff compared to Europe which wasn't wasn't as affected.
Ours prefer venous snakes
>Yes, they climb over and eat cats
Sounds like the lizards need to be shot on sight
Its bad luck to harm a කබරගොයා
Seethe harder, toxo zombie
have a nice day newbie
>cats climb over fences and eat other animals, including birds which are loved by many people
>Lol based! Natural selection, b***hes. *licks paw*
>handsome lizard (beloved pet) climbs over and eats a cat (neglected stray)
>also eats more rats than the cat lol
>noooooo this is an act of aggression! this is war! kill these lowly creatures! it's not fair!
Catgays on suicide watch
>Sounds like the lizards need to be shot on sight
>native animal eating invasive pest
>NOOOOOOOOOO
> invasive pest
so humans?
sars please do not rape the monitor lizard
he don't know his own size
how are these things not taking over florida along with the pythons and tegus?
Nile monitors apparently are but I guess water monitors just haven’t been established
>how are these things not taking over florida along with the pythons and tegus?
Because anyone can just shoot them legally and monitors breed slow.
>POLITENESS RANKINGS
1. ursus arctos horribilis
2. varanus salvator
3. homosexual sapiens negrus
He had blood in his mouth and seemed lethargic. Even tried to squeeze through an undersized fence like a cartoon character before realizing hes way too fat for that. I opened the gate and let him out. This is like the sixth time I've seen him so I hope hes doing alright now. Picrel is him from some months ago.
based
Water monitors are a little too big, slow, and conspicuous to really get a major foothold in Florida. Compared to the other big non native reptiles in Florida, it's not too big of a shock.
>green iguanas
smaller, spend a lot of time in trees (harder to find/notice), herbivores (always food around), excellent swimmers
>tegus
smaller, omnivores (always food around)
>Burmese pythons
comparable in mass but nocturnal, snakes are better hiders in general (see reticulated pythons still existing even in major southeast asian cities), can go longer without food, shit out mountains of eggs and take care of them, excellent swimmers
>Nile monitors
Basically an Asian water monitor but smaller, faster, and meaner, all of which help it be more competitive and less easy for people to pick off with bb guns or machetes
The two things Asian water monitors have going for them are being semi aquatic and being a reptile in a hot environment, but other introduced reptiles have those perks plus more. There's a ton of mid size semi arboreal/terrestrial lizards that have been released into Florida too, but a lot of them are getting outcompeted and replaced by red headed rock agamas (from Africa), who are relative newcomers. Eventually things will shake out to the point that only a handful of the most survivable introduced species remain, while the ones less suited to Florida won't.
>USA
Not in my backyard anymore but Alligators are native and I can find them with a bit of luck with a 20~ min drive
cute