This monitor lizard was rescued after trying to climb a steel gate - and getting stuck spread-eagled doing the splits. <br /><br />The crafty lizard was trying to escape from a front yard by scaling the 8ft high metal gate in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday night (June 10). <br /><br />But the creature appears to have slipped - leaving his rare legs spread 180 degrees open while getting firmly stuck in the awkward position. <br /><br />Residents called the local rescue foundation after noticing the huge monitor lizard stuck between the metal bars. <br /><br />Volunteers of Poh Teck Tung Foundation climbed up to reach the reptile but failed to save it because it was too heavy to be carried. <br /><br />The six-feet-long monitor lizard was eventually rescued twenty minutes after its body was tied with a big lasso and slowly carried out from the spiked fence. <br /><br />Officials tied its legs with the rope to stop it from becoming violent and sent the lizard to the vets as its tail was partly injured from the struggle. <br /><br />A volunteer said: ''We’ll wait for the monitor lizard to fully recover which might take serval days and we’ll release it back into the wild.''
