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A Gould's monitor at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida.
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The lace monitor (Varanus varius), also known as the tree goanna, is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in total length and 14 kilograms (31 lb) in weight.
If the female Lace Monitor can’t find a termite nest to lay her eggs in, she will nest in a hole in the ground and fill it with grass or leaf litter. The heat from the decomposing vegetation keeps the eggs warm.
Monitors are the only lizards that have a forked tongue.
This one is shedding its skin.
It's time for his second vaccination shot and we had to make sure he's ready for it. He's well ahead of the general 100-grams-per-week rule so he'll be paying his second visit to the vets tonight. The progress in his interaction with Pip, Pebbel and Poeka is slow but noticeable. He wants to play with them so badly that he often charges into them and is then told off in a very clear way.
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Mertens water monitor is a medium- to largesized (total length up to 1 m) semi-aquatic monitor, dark brown to black on the back with numerous small dark-edged cream or yellow spots. #D500
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Monitor lizards look very much like the dragons that we see in fairy tale books. Of the 31 species in the world, four are from India: the Bengal monitor, the two-banded monitor, the desert monitor, and the yellow monitor lizard. All of the four are severely endangered species and are protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act. Which means anyone caught trapping or killing them can be punished with a fine of Rs. 25,000 and 5 years in jail. But it would seem that no one cares.
These useful jungle creatures that should live to 15 years very rarely even attain sexual maturity at the age of 3. This is because their meat and eggs are eaten and their body parts used for all sorts of fake remedies. The animals are hunted down, their spines or legs broken and they are then thrown into sacks and taken to villages and cities where they are kept alive in dreadful pain until the trader finds a gullible customer who will buy their sweat, organs, fat, or bones for aphrodisiacs, medicines, or amulets. So many ignorant people are sold parts of this creature in the false belief that it will cure some disease or the other. Many of you might have seen this helpless creature being roasted by madaris in the markets of your town.
The tongue of the live monitor is cut to be swallowed in the ridiculous hope that it will cure tuberculosis. The blood is drunk from its slit belly for asthma, its fat, to be rubbed on eyelids, is sold as a cure for failing sight or else rubbed onto wounds in the belief that it will heal them. Its head, cut off and burnt, is claimed to remedy every disease. It penis is used by Tantriks for black magic. Its flesh it touted as an aphrodisiac. Nor do we spare its young. The babies are steeped in alcohol and drunk to increase male potency. Even the eggs are considered a delicacy and cooked.
Nor is this the end of the list of horrors we heap on this reclusive creature. What do you think your lizard skin bags, wallets, and shoes are made of? The skins of these poor animals. In some parts of India, drums and the chambers of stringed instruments are made with their skins. During the Nagpanchami festival they are dug out of their resting places, nailed to poles, and carried in processions until they die.
There is no end to the torture we put these small vulnerable creatures to, because none of you ever protests.
Monitors are anything but primitive dragon like creatures. They are an extraordinary, versatile, hardy family of lizards that are good runners, diggers, climbers, and swimmers and are both tree and cave dwellers. They are a vital part of the ecosystem that keeps you alive and to kill them or to ignore those who carry on this trade is to endanger your own lives. They could live in peace if we let them. But it seems as if we Indians have decided to destroy another species for our false beliefs, superstitions, and passing fancies. Don’t buy lizard skin in any form, and catch lizard sellers when they enter your town and take them to the police. There are too few of these creatures left to take any more chances with their lives.
I was looking for a more elegant/delicate pedestal for a monitor/TV, because I didn't like the ones I had and came up with these ideas.
Monitor lizards have a massive body and powerful legs. Most species have strong claws on their feet, and all but the largest monitors can climb well. The tail is long and powerful, usually about twice as long as the body, and can be flailed as a potent weapon. Monitors grow throughout their life, so the oldest individuals in a population are also the largest ones.
Monitors have a long, specialized tongue with a bifurcated tip that is highly sensitive to smell and taste. The tongue is extended to pick up scent chemicals, and is then retracted into the mouth where the scents are analyzed using an organ on the roof of the mouth.
Monitor lizards grow replacement teeth in the gaps between their mature teeth. They have at least 29 vertebrae above their hips. Nine of these are neck vertebrae, supporting the unusually long neck of these lizards. Their powerful jaws are hinged in the middle, allowing them to swallow large prey. The head of monitors is tapered, and there are distinct ear holes.
Monitors are active predators, hunting during the day. They stalk a wide range of animals and eat carrion and eggs as well. Monitors ingest their prey whole if it is small enough, but they can also dismember large prey items so they can be swallowed.
Monitors, like all lizards, are poikilothermic or “cold-blooded.” They are most energetic after they have been heated by the morning sun, since their muscles work much more efficiently and easily when they are warm. Monitors can run quickly to chase down prey. When doing so they lift their body and tail clear off the ground.
Monitors also swim well, and may seek water as a refuge when threatened. They can walk underwater, and can use their tongue to smell underwater.
When threatened, monitors can be formidably aggressive animals. They can inflict painful bites and scratches, and the largest species are capable of killing a human. However, monitors can be readily tamed in captivity.
The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis) or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over the Indian Subcontinent, as well as parts of Southeast Asia and West Asia. This large lizard is mainly terrestrial, and its length can range from about 61 to 175 cm from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail. Young monitors may be more arboreal, but adults mainly hunt on the ground, preying mainly on arthropods, but also taking small terrestrial vertebrates, ground birds, eggs and fish. Although large monitors have few predators apart from humans who hunt them for meat, younger individuals are hunted by many predators.
Samsung 40-inch HD LCD TV
Tinkering around with various movies (Finding Nemo above) as I tweak settings and learn the functions of this lovely addition to our home theatre experience.
Yes those are Klipsch SB-1s on either side of the TV.
Let the movies commence!
The Sinclair ZX81 was a home computer released in 1981 by Sinclair Research. It was the follow-up to the Sinclair ZX80.
The machine's distinctive appearance was the work of industrial designer Rick Dickinson. Video output, as in the ZX80, was to a television set, and saving and loading programs was via an ordinary home audio tape recorder to audio cassette. Like its predecessor it used a membrane keyboard.
Timex Corporation manufactured kits as well as assembled machines for Sinclair Research. In the United States a version with double the RAM and an NTSC television standard was marketed as the Timex Sinclair 1000.
As with the ZX80, the processor was a NEC Zilog Z80-compatible,[1] running at a clock rate of 3.25 MHz, but the system ROM had grown to 8192 bytes in size, and the BASIC now supported floating point arithmetic[2]. It was an adaptation of the ZX80 ROM by Steve Vickers on contract from Nine Tiles Ltd, the authors of Sinclair BASIC. The new ROM also worked in the ZX80 and Sinclair offered it as an upgrade for the older ZX80 for a while.
The base system as supplied had 1 KB (KB) of RAM. This RAM was used to hold the computer's system variables, the screen image, and any programs and data. The screen was text only, 32 characters wide by 24 high. Blocky graphics with a resolution of 64 by 48 pixels were possible by the use of the PLOT command, which selected among a set of 16 graphics characters.[3] The ZX81 uses a resizable display-file (screen buffer) meaning that it can be expanded or shrunk depending on the amount of installed memory and the amount of free space at the moment.
The ZX81 was originally sold via mail order in kit form requiring soldering [2] (priced at £49.95) or assembled (£69.95 or US$100 in the US). A later deal with high street retail W.H.Smith saw the ZX81 and all accessories being sold on the high street (ZX81 was £69.99, ZX 16K RAM pack £49.99, ZX Printer £49.99)