Exotic pets including bearded dragons,
monitor lizards and a royal python all needed a place to stay when last week's floods forced people to evacuate an estate in Newburn.
Northop College Small Animal Centre Manager, Wendy Gacem said: "We have never housed a Savannah
Monitor Lizard here at the College before so were eager to give our students the opportunity to learn about the fascinating species as part of their course.
The dining room of their typical family home is peppered with cages and tanks housing everything from Bosc
monitor lizards and Chilean rose tarantulas, to Madagascan hissing cockroaches.
They saw a
monitor lizard, or bayawak, feeding on the remains.
Police were alerted to sightings of a Nile
monitor lizard, whose bite is strong enough to crush human bones.
Some of the animals on display include barn owls, snakes and Bart the Bosc
Monitor Lizard. Visitors will have the opportunity to talk to animal handlers who can answer questions on the animals' habitats, life cycles and what they eat.
Meanwhile, there was panic in the jungle when a huge flesh-eating
monitor lizard crawled into the camp.
A FULL polar bear skin, a baboon's skull, a
monitor lizard handbag, carved ivory and examples of other animal products seized at UK airports and ferry ports have been put on display at the Cheshire Show.
CLAWS OUT Annabel, top, Amy, above, and, right, a
monitor lizard