Arizona man shocked when he finds sudden, big creature swimming in his pool

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An Asian Water Monitor lizard — the second largest on the earth — shocked an Arizona man when it took an uninvited swim in his yard pool.

“It almost sounded like a baseball jumping in the pool,” Peoria home-owner Eric Johnson told Fox 10.

Johnson mentioned he was doing yardwork when he heard a large splash, and turned to see a lizard doing laps his pool.

“All the sudden it pops up, this giant lizard swimming across the pool. I didn’t know if it was venomous, if it was going to attack me,” he mentioned.

The home-owner stored his distance from the lizard, which he at first took to be a snake, however caught the Asian Water Monitor on digital camera.

The lizard proceeded to climb out of the pool and sunbathe, Johnson mentioned that he took his sudden visitor to be pleasant.

“So it seemed like it was sweet and friendly and it kind of just laid there, but I wasn’t trying to go test that theory, you know,” he mentioned, “I figured it was some type of, you know, half-land, half-water animal because he looked pretty comfortable.”

The scaly swimmer finally climbed up a tree and left Johnson’s yard, however the Arizona home-owner mentioned it appeared like he had enjoyable.

“He looked happy swimming in the pool,” he mentioned.

Asian Water Monitors can develop as much as seven toes lengthy and weigh as much as 90 kilos, they’re native to areas in Southeast Asia corresponding to China, Thailand and Vietnam.

Alex Roszkowski, the Reptile Manager at Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary instructed Fox 10 that whereas Asian Water Monitors don’t sometimes assault folks, they are often harmful.

“They’re not gonna try to actively attack somebody necessarily, but if they feel cornered or threatened in some way, they do have very sharp teeth, and very sharp claws so they can and will defend themselves,” he mentioned.

Roszkowski speculated that the lizard was anyone’s pet that bought unfastened, since they aren’t native to the state.