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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) welcomed a scaly new “student” after a monitor lizard was spotted at one of its residential halls.<\/p>\n
The monitor lizard was seen roaming around various parts of the dormitory in a video posted by TikTok user asslelelele on Thursday (Sept 17).<\/p>\n
“I think the lizard wants aircon,” teased the NTU student, identifying the place as Hall 8.<\/p>\n
The video shows the monitor lizard peeking through a glass door into what appears to be a study room, where an unsuspecting student remained focused on revision.<\/p>\n
The student also captured her scaly new dormmate climbing up a flight of stairs and seemingly appreciating a colourful stained-glass wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In her caption, the student highlighted that this was “a typical day in NTU”, referring to the wildlife sightings on campus, from macaques<\/a> to wild boars.<\/p>\n Netizens played along in the comments, joking about having seen the lizard around the campus.<\/p>\n NTU Hall 8’s TikTok account commented: “Please respect our new resident’s privacy.”<\/p>\n One user commented: “Eh that’s my project group mate…no wonder he [didn’t] come for the meeting.”<\/p>\n Another wrote that the lizard was “just tryna study”.<\/p>\n The TikTok video has amassed 33,000 views in the past 24 hours with over 2,000 likes.<\/p>\n The sighting at NTU comes just a day after two monitor lizards were seen apparently hugging it out in Sengkang.<\/p>\n In a TikTok video posted by saralovesandwiches on Sept 15, the lizards were reportedly spotted at the Sengkang park connector outside Rivercove Residences condominium.<\/p>\n Sara Cher, 26, told MS News that she posted the video when she encountered the strange scene on Sept 15 at about 9.50am.<\/p>\n The video shows the two lizards upright with their forelimbs wrapped around each other’s torsos, mimicking an embrace.<\/p>\n Cher captioned the video: “You and me.”<\/p>\n Her video has gone viral, racking up over 3.2 million views, over 500,000 likes and more than 20,000 saves.<\/p>\n Some comments highlighted that both lizards appeared to be males and could be fighting to establish dominance.<\/p>\n When two monitor lizards appear to be “hugging” each other, they are actually “two males engaged in a wrestling match”, according to the National Parks Board website.<\/p>\n The lizards could be competing for the attention of a female monitor lizard.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:745303]]<\/p>\n laili.abdeen@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nanyang Technological University (NTU) welcomed a scaly new “student” after a monitor lizard was spotted at one of its residential halls. The monitor lizard was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hugging or wrestling? Monitor lizards at Sengkang<\/h2>\n
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