Ok, here’s the story with this shot. I’m hanging out with my family, eating some rice and trying to learn the Fulfulde phrase for "I’m tired of learning Fulfulde," and I hear a ruckus outside. We run out to find my host father and his posse of middle-aged Muslim men beating the hell out of something on the ground. I freak, thinking it’s a kitten or something, then they move away, and my brother starts screaming and runs back into the house. It’s this huge lizard. Apparently they saw it just strolling down the lane, and didn’t want it to eat the livestock. So here’s my dad holding the thing. I couldn’t get a straight answer on how common it is to see something like this here, but I’ve been told I’m going to see a lot of snakes of varying sizes once March hits…sweet.