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RE: Don't fear the lizards! Thailand edition
We have a few lizards in these parts as well. Not very flashy, mostly grey ones 6-8” long. As cold as it gets here, they must burrow under some organic matter to go into dormancy. I see them when we travel, but they don’t bother me. There are two types of tourists that irritate me.. the ones that freak out over them and the ones that feed them off their plate. Yes. Yes I did witness a tourist lounging on their beach chair while feeding a lizard pizza remnants from a fork. Okay.. now the next person to sit in that chair will be freaked out by the partially domesticated reptile stealing their food. Human behavior is just as fascinating to observe at times. Lizards are cuter .. at least cuter than the lady feeding the lizard her scraps.
yeah, we had a problem with that at one villas that I managed, they started feeding the monkeys that had not yet seen the human inhabitants as a source of food... once they figured out that these really big ground monkeys (people) are going to hand them slices of pineapple they would wait for the humans.... eventually the actual monkeys lost their patience and just started invading verandas and even learned how to break into sliding glass windows and doors.
It took us a long time to recover from that and sadly, there were some monkey casualties (these hits were not authorized by me but the local Thai staff saw it as the quickest solution and even though it was cruel, it did the job)
Sometimes the quickest way is the best way when you are trying to save your business. It's the cruel part of life and the food chain. Monkeys may be a bit more aggressive but go about it in a more logical way.