Viral Video: A video is going viral on the internet showing a woman playing and caressing a giant monitor lizard in her lap. Not just the woman, the lizard too seems to be enjoying the woman’s company as it cuddles with her. The lizard acts like a baby and confidently places its paws on her shoulder while playing with her hair. Well, it seems evident that the woman works at the zoo and is a trained professional.
In the video, she informs that the reptile is a Philippines water monitor. ”He is just a sweetheart, he’s the one that we get along very well,” the woman says in the video. An Instagram account called thereptilezoo shared the video and wrote, ”We love this big teddy bear.”
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Since being shared, the video has gone viral with more than 20,000 likes and hundreds of comments. One user wrote, ”So he couldn’t just snap and take a chunk out of your neck?”, while another commented, ”When I lived in Guam, one time when I was running one of those came out of the jungle and chased me LOL those things are fast.”
A third wrote, ”The eyes of this animal look extremely happy.”