Species:

Varanus salvator

Water Monitor

Some other names for this species:

Common Water Monitor, Asian Water Monitor

October 19, 1999
Puri Kamandalu, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
I saw a very young, brightly patterned individual between the hotel and the adjacent rice field. It vanished as I was getting my camera out. It was so brightly patterned that I thought at first it was a Harlequin Monitor (Varanus dumerilii), but all the references I later consulted assured me that the only monitor on Bali is V. salvator.