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Earlier this week, director of the department's wildlife conservation office suggested a replacement should be found for hia (which has many negative connotations).

"We don't plan to change the lizard's name," the department's director general Kasemsan Jinnawaso said yesterday. "We would like to apologise for any confusion".

Kasemsan acknowledged that people named Voranuch and Voranus had contacted the office to complain that they would have to share their name with the reptile.