@jperlow Description: A monitor lizard (dark brown dinosaur-looking beast) looks out of a house front storm door, front feet on the lower window, like a dog or cat, but it’s longer than a person is tall.
@kotaro@jperlow Several years ago I went to a conference in Shanghai and I spent an afternoon at the zoo. Just next to the entrance there is an "endemic / local species" pavilion. There were a lot of lizards there. Large lizards. Sturdily-built ones. That's when I was enlightened as to why so many Asian myths and legends involve dragons.