4.5ft and 40 lbs??? That would be shaped like a basketball at 4.5ft long.
Every 4-5ft water monitor I know of or have ever seen in 20 plus years, is about 8-12 lbs at most, they are after all 2/3 rds tail. A very large adult water monitor around 6ft plus may weigh about 30 plus pounds.
I used to help a good friend with a reptile rescue, it was common to be called out for so called 4-6ft niles, water monitors, 4-5ft boscs, etc to find 1-3ft monitors. It was really common to get calls about 5-8ft gators, when we got there they were 1-3ft baby gators.
How someone mistakes a 4.5ft water monitor as being that heavy, I dont know. That would be about 6 lbs heavier than my 6ft 8 inch albig. As an interesting experiment, I had several people look at Sobek in person, and pick her up in the past, they assumed that she weighed about 75lbs, this is more than double her actual weight, about the weight of my freighting husky.

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