Lizard Water Monitor (Varanus salvator)

in Beauty of Creativity18 days ago

I accidentally sighted this animal was crawling near the pond in which I believe, that would be an interesting subject to be shot since I rarely find such an animal around. So, I grabbed my camera and tried to avoid its notice when taking photos. Yeah, this animal is very vulnerable to the threat which made me be like a thief in taking its photos. We call biawak air, although due to its prevalence it is simply referred to as biawak. As I used to do when dealing with wild animals, away from their sight, I sneaked behind the trees or from something unnoticable and started shooting them from distance range, that what I did when I found this reptile on water. This lizard is called Asian Monitor (Varanus salvator) that mostly spend time in the water. Here we call biawak air, although due to its prevalence it is simply referred to as biawak. This species is semiaquitic and opportunistic that dwell a variety of natural habitat that resides in the forest and mangrove swamps. Habitats that are considered to be most important to this species are mangrove vegetation, swamps, wetlands, and altitudes below 1000 meters.


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CameraNikon D7000
CategoryAnimal Photography
LensTamron Tele-Macro 70-300
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 17 days ago 

Very good photography. The animal looked horrified.

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