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A woman walking in a park was horrified when she came across a monitor lizard with a lifeless mousedeer in its mouth. Pictures and a video of the unfortunate encounter were posted by user Joanne Toh to Facebook group Singapore Wildlife Sightings on Thursday'Why didn't I think of a way to save the mousedeer?' Parkgoer's horror as monitor lizard eats animal
A woman walking in a park was horrified when she came across a monitor lizard with a lifeless mousedeer in its mouth. Pictures and a video of the unfortunate encounter were posted by user Joanne Toh to Facebook group Singapore Wildlife Sightings on Thursday (Aug 29). Stating that she was at Thomson Nature Park on the same day, Toh wrote that she saw the monitor lizard eating what she thought was a frog from a distance. However, upon using a zoom-in lens to get a clearer view, she realised that the monitor lizard was eating a mousedeer that was already badly bitten. «I know this is the so-called 'animal life cycle', but to me it was really cruel and made me feel very sad [that] a cute mouse deer was eaten like this,» wrote Toh. «Why didn't I think of a way to save the mousedeer? Because I was alone,» she added. The woman added that she had cut her video short to post online as the later scenes, which were supposedly gory, might make some uncomfortable. Two species of mousedeer are native to Singapore, according to a 2021 newsletter by the National Parks Board (NParks). Read more