A monitor lizard was helped after wandering around with its head stuck inside a discarded tin of food.<br /><br />The reptile is believed to have been sniffing the rubbish while looking for food in Krabi, southern Thailand on Thursday afternoon (February 27).<br /><br />Locals saw the creature scampering around the grass at the back of a mosque. It could not see and did not know where it was walking.<br /><br />Muslim devotee Wansuk, 50, was cut short his prayers to help the lizard. He used a stick to try and nudge the can out of the lizard's snout.<br /><br />However, the lizard kept wriggling away. It took Wansuk 20 minutes before he eventually removed the can so the lizard could scamper away into the nearby woodland.<br /><br />The kind-hearted local said he had heard the reptile the night before but thought it was just passing through the yard.<br /><br />He said: "I heard the sound of an animal in the bush when I came to pray last night but I did not bother to have a look.<br /><br />"But then I came again this afternoon and saw a monitor lizard staying still in the yard, I could see it had a can on its head.<br /><br />"I went to have a look and saw it appeared to be exhausted. It had probably had its head stuck for a few days so I decided to help it."<br /><br />Checking the can, Wansuk found signs of food inside and he believed the hungry reptile may have been trying to eat it when he became stuck.<br /><br />He added: ''This is a good reminder to recycle rubbish properly so that animals aren't harmed.''
