imported-varanus
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Anyone chasing Rosenbergs in the near future??
That's a West Perth footy jumper, resistant to monitor clawsthey had decent cameras back then? jeez.
How old do you think it was when you caught it? I ask because it looks relatively calm in your hands and is an impressive feat if a wild adult monitor was able to be calmed to the point of not scratching and biting.My first Rosenberg, wild caught in northern suburbs of Perth in 1950's
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It was probably a metre long, I followed it and just managed to tail it as it went into a burrow, I had never handled one before but it was calm enough to carry home on my bike (I did not have a bag). It's a long time ago but I used to free handle Dugites and Tiger snakes around that time, worked on the rule that if you act in a non threatening way and handle them gently they are ok. I had larger Heaths after that and handled them without injury, this is before TV and not much info about reptiles other than myths that "if a goanna bit you it would never heal"How old do you think it was when you caught it? I ask because it looks relatively calm in your hands and is an impressive feat if a wild adult monitor was able to be calmed to the point of not scratching and biting.
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