{"id":295999,"date":"2025-11-20T01:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:27:23","slug":"watch-big-lizard-causes-a-stir-at-school-administration-building-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295999\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Big lizard causes a stir at school administration building entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 17 (UPI) &#8212; A large goanna lizard caused a stir when it paid a visit to a school administration building in Queensland, Australia, just before rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24\/7 said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/810415588285351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that reptile wrangler Stuart McKenzie responded to the school in Palmview on a report of &#8220;a big goanna on the wall&#8221; right next to the entrance to the administration building.\n<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie said in a video of the capture that he had previously visited the same location to capture a red-bellied black snake.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie was able to wrangle the large lizard, dubbed Greg by the school, into a plastic tube for relocation.<\/p>\n<p>The snake catcher said there was a slight hiccup at the end of the rescue when Greg didn&#8217;t want to leave his comfortable spot inside the tube.<\/p>\n<p>Greg was eventually coaxed out and returned to the wild.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 17 (UPI) &#8212; A large goanna lizard caused a stir when it paid a visit to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-295999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-funny","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}