Four guys have been detained after a video showed them gang-rapping a Bengal monitor lizard at the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, India, was discovered on one of the accused's phones.
The four males were caught on camera by the Maharashtra Forest Department loitering around the forest and trespassing into the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, which the Indian government established in 2008 to protect Bengal tigers.
Officials discovered photographs of porcupines and deer on the men's phones in addition to the video of the males sexually torturing the monitor lizard.
Bengal monitor lizards can grow to be about 16 pounds and five and a half feet long. Under the Wildlife Protection Act, they are currently classified as reserve species.