I keep seeing these word come up to decsribe a monitor.
They are both incorrect terms.

Mean: full of or exhibiting malice; spiteful

Vicious: morally corrupt; evil; depraved; having a extremely bad disposition

Ok, I will admit some of us forum regulars might fit better under these discriptions but not a wild animal like our monitors.
When ever I hear about a vicious, mean monitor I think, good, it's alive and able to defends itself.
More than likely, it is just tired of putting up with the crap us stupid humans make it deal with day in and day out.
Over the years, I have learned most , no, all monitor bites, scratches and tail whips are the humans fault.
The lizard is just doing what it knows to do.
I have also learned the warning signs of quite a few critter, and leave them alone when warned.
Most of these "Mean and Vicious lizards" just want to be left alone, their space, their mates their borrows and their food left alone.

Just my rant of the day.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

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