Rare, endangered clouded monitor, long-tailed macaque handed in to Ho Chi Minh City rangers
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 18:17 GMT+7
A man residing in Thu Duc City, a district-level unit in Ho Chi Minh City, handed over a clouded monitor, while a woman in Binh Thanh District handed in a long-tailed macaque to the municipal forest protection unit. Both are rare and endangered forest animals.
The Ho Chi Minh City forest protection division confirmed on Saturday that it received the clouded monitor from 35-year-old Ngo Thanh Tuong, residing in Thu Duc City.
Tuong said that his mother-in-law saw on Friday a long animal crawling in her house in Ward 5, Tan Binh District.
Being afraid of the animal, she called Tuong to inform him of it.
Tuong came to the house and saw the animal which looked like a monitor lizard in the house’s corner. He later used a basket to catch it.
After a quick search on the Internet, Tuong found that the animal is a rare and endangered clouded monitor, so he contacted the Ho Chi Minh City forest protection division to hand over the animal.
“I do not know where the clouded monitor was from. I handed it over to the municipal forest protection division so that it will be looked after before being released back to nature,” Tuong said.
According to Ho Chi Minh City forest protection officers, the animal is a female clouded monitor and its scientific name is Varanus nebulosus.
It weighs about one kilogram and is classified in Group IB, the list of endangered species of forest animals that are strictly prohibited from exploitation and use for commercial purposes.
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| The long-tailed macaque that the Ho Chi Minh City forest protection division received from Tran Thi Lan in Binh Thanh District. |
On October 15, the Ho Chi Minh City forest protection division also received a long-tailed macaque from Tran Thi Lan in Binh Thanh District.
The long-tailed macaque, weighing some six kilograms, has the scientific name Macaca fascicularis.
It belongs to Group IIB, which includes forest animals that are not yet threatened with extinction but are in danger if not strictly managed.
Lan said she had raised the female long-tailed macaque, also known as crab-eating macaque, for nearly seven years.
Since early last year, the primate has become ferocious. It bit her three times while she was taking care of, bathing, and feeding it.
Most recently, she was scratched and bitten on Friday while she taking two small bowls out of the macaque’s cage.
Being concerned that the long-tailed macaque may bite her again and do harm to her family members, Lan handed over it to the forest protection unit.
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