Water monitors are amazingly fast swimmers: Swimming in the water of the Sundarbans

From the archive record

Swimming in the water of the Sundarbans, this water monitor lizard is nature's marvel. Water monitors are one of the most common large lizards found in Asia. The lizards always live near water and are amazingly fast swimmers. Monitor lizards are mostly carnivorous; some also scavenge on carrion. It can be found in forests, mangrove swamps, and even man-made canals! Monitor lizards feed on a huge variety of food types (eg. insects, crabs, snakes, fish, etc); they control the population of their prey, and in turn are a source of food to larger predators (eg. crocodiles). This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery,