not at the zoo or enclosure, this animal is wild and free to roam like nature intended

Tomorrow we are going to the US of A again, but this time no utah.

Explored 13-9-2014: #152

HMS M33 is not only the sole remaining British veteran of the bloody Dardanelles campaign of 1915-1916, but also of the Russian Civil War which followed. The ship is one of just three British warships from World War I still in existence.

HMS M33, an M29-class monitor, was built in 1915 for the Royal Navy on the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. She was a floating gun platform designed to bombard coastal positions from the sea. The 580-ton M33 is located in the No.1 Dry Dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard built in 1801 alongside HMS Victory, where she serves as a static museum.

The Anti-Monitor! One of the most powerful beings of in the multiverse.

These are based on the recent Justice League version, the reformed appearance in Crisis, and the original appearance respectively.

I've been reading a lot of Justice League recently, so this is just one of the groups I was inspired to make during reading.

Monitor lizard

The top of Monitor pass, east end. 50 more miles and on the 395 towards home! 10/25/2016. Around 8,000'

And he's monitoring a tasty vermin snack!

Larger Lizard

Received my BenQ SW270C monitor today. Which has hardware calibration build in. I can definitely tell a difference when viewing on my LG27UL600 monitor. Event though, they are both calibrated. The whites on the BenQ are so much cleaner.

Monitor pano - dedicated to Liz Mack on her birthday, 1st October 2018!

You can check out her very cool photostream here:

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This young painted turtle lives in pond at Garden in the Woods, in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Portrait of a Philippene monitor lizard in the reptile house at London zoo

Sandakan Memorial Park

Nevv Corner

Llorca

Translation:

Surveillance

Please behave adapted and inconspicuous.

Frankfurt, Ostbahnhof

Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

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Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Pentax 645NII

Pentax smc FA 645 75mm f/2.8

Kodak Ektar 100

Fuji Frontier SP-3000 Scanner

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Varanus nebulosus

Not every day one finds a metre and a half of water monitor under the house.

ODC -Backlit

Lumpini Park, Bangkok

This young Water Monitor is 40 cm long

Near Canyonlands National Park.

Best Viewed Large

42 inch Clouded Monitor Lizard walking through the grounds of the Vivanta by Taj Hotel, Rebak Island, Malaysia

Sandakan Memorial Park, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Taken in Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand

Andrena ilicis. A bit of a mystery bee. It seems to be associated with Woodlands, but other than that I don't have much of a feel for the species. This one was collected in Somerset County Maryland.

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USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

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Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus

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Everyone needs a little time to be lazy. Even a tree monitor lizard.

Varnaus spenceri. Barkly Tablelands, Northern Territory.

junger Bengalwaran, Varanus bengalensis

This young, very tiny monitor comes sometimes for sunbathing at our front gate at Karandeniya, Sri Lanka

Le point de départ du sentier Monitor et Merrimac offre une vue imprenable sur les buttes.

Asian Water Monitor, Singapore

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

The water monitor is one of the most striking members of the Reptile family and is second in size only to the Nile crocodile. Including the tail, large adults can reach lengths of up to nearly 2.5 meters. Its body is adorned with beautiful yellow patterning, aiding it to be well camouflaged in its preferred habitat close to bodies of water and reed beds. Although usually found close to water, these monitors are not water dependent and will actively forage for food on land, traveling large distances from water if need be. They are also capable of climbing trees but are usually found basking on riverbanks.

www.sabisabi.com/wildfacts/water-monitor/

This Lace Monitor is a new resident of our zoo. The species is native to Australia and they are the second largest monitors there. Lace Monitors reach a total length of about 2 m (7 ft) and a weight of about 14 kg (30 lb). I think they are beautiful animals and I will certainly try to take more photos of them in the near future.

The lace monitor (Varanus varius), also known as the tree goanna, is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in total length and 14 kilograms (31 lb) in weight.

If the female Lace Monitor can’t find a termite nest to lay her eggs in, she will nest in a hole in the ground and fill it with grass or leaf litter. The heat from the decomposing vegetation keeps the eggs warm.

Monitors are the only lizards that have a forked tongue.

This one is shedding its skin.

a monitor lizard or iguana at Entopia, Penang. These lizards are very common in South-East Asia. Although I live in an urban area in Kuala Lumpur, one (about 4-5 feet long) came into my garden and up to my window a few years back. They are quite harmless but their claws are really sharp and can do serious damage to our skins.

First test with the Yiynova monitor tablet.

For my video; youtu.be/5J26ztEZtBA?si=F-xQaB1XJo4zMHX5,

The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. It is widely considered to be the second-largest lizard species, after the Komodo dragon. It is distributed from eastern and northeastern India and Bangladesh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, through southern China and Hainan Island in the east to mainland Southeast Asia and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Lombok, the Riau Archipelago, Sulawesi. It is one of the most widespread monitor lizards.

Snapshot from my video.

The Asian water monitor has a natural affinity towards water, inhabiting the surroundings of lakes, rivers, ponds, swamps and various riparian habitats, including sewers, city parks, and urban waterways. It is an excellent swimmer and hunts fish, frogs, invertebrates, water birds, and other types of aquatic and amphibious prey. Due to its apparently large, stable population, it is currently listed as Least Concern on to the IUCN Red List.

The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 166-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site