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Blauer Baumwaran - Varanus macraei - blue-spotted tree monitor , Zoo Halle, Germany 2022

The smuggled monitor confiscated by customs has found a temporary home in Halle Zoo, Germany.

 

The very conspicuously colored tree monitor is the monitor species with the smallest distribution area. This species has only been known to science since 2001. The offspring has already succeeded.

 

Varanus macraei is diurnal and arboreal thus it avoids predators by fleeing up a tree. Adult male blue-spotted tree monitors may reach 1.1 m in total length.

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Uploaded on October 20, 2022
Taken on October 20, 2022