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INDIAN EXPRESS (New Delhi, India) 26 September 08 Animal lover saves monitor lizard
Kochi: As the World Animal Welfare Day on Oct 4 approaches, this website's newspaper came across a good Samaritan who saved a monitor lizard found nearly dead from a five-day old cleaver-wound on its neck.
“I saw her crawling by the Foreshore Road,” said Jayashankar N K, a stationary shop owner and a wildlife enthusiast. Widely considered as intelligent in the lizard species, the monitor apparently escaped a merciless meat hunter. Jayashankar and his friend Vinod rushed the monitor to Dr. Giggin, a veterinary surgeon at the district veterinary centre, Kochi on Thursday.
“It appeared to be suffering from a knife wound which is about 4-5 days old,” said Dr Giggin, veterinary surgeon, district veterinary centre, Kochi who is treating it.
“It’s a bad wound and the lizard is in distress,” says Dr. Giggin.
“We will go for a surgery to close the one-and-a-half centimetre deep cut only after treating the infection and putrification.
Forest officials from Kodanad are expected to arrive on Friday to look at the mammal. Monitor species fall under The Wildlife (Protection) Act.
Animal lover saves monitor lizard

[quote]Forest officials from Kodanad are expected to arrive on Friday to look at the mammal.]

mammal huh? Must be one of them there egg laying mammals, like the ones in Aus