"Park officials try to capture a monitor lizard in Lumpini park in Bangkok on September 20, 2016. The hulking, prehistoric-looking monitor lizards that stalk the grounds of Bangkok's Lumpini park have long triggered fascination -- and fear -- from visitors to the city centre's main green space. But with their population soaring out of control to some 400, city officials are on a mission to bait and bag some of the meaty reptiles known as ""hia"" -- a noun which doubles as the most powerful swear word in Thai. (AFP PHOTO / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN)"
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