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El Monitor Huáscar, Museo Flotante en la Base Naval de Talcahuano, engalanado para el 21 de Mayo de 2018, cuando aún no se disipa el humo de las salvas de honor
A pygmy member of the monitor, or goanna, family of lizards which has some very large members, such as the Perentie, which can grow to 2.5 metres. This is a young resident of Billabong Sanctuary and will probably grow to less than 70 cm.
It is a desert-dweller from the north of W.A., N.T. and Queensland.
The ridged tail looks like it was made from bottle-caps!
Everyday, we have some Water monitor (Varanus salvator) coming to the staff canteen to get some scraps of food dropped (not always by accident) by the staff eating there. As they are used to our presence, they are easy enough to approach and observe. It took the opportunity today to capture a nice portrait of one of them, more than a meter long, that came very close. Of course, it wouldn't be the same without its tongue out.
Der Schwarzkehlwaran ist ein aktiver Beutegreifer, der züngelnd nach Nahrung sucht. Wirbellose wie Schnecken, Hundertfüßer, Grashüpfer, Käfer und Grillen machen den Großteil der Nahrung aus. Daneben greifen Schwarzkehlwarane auch kleine bis mittelgroße Schlangen inklusive Kobras an. Der Schwarzkehlwaran erbeutet auch Eier und Küken von boden- und baumbrütenden Vögeln. Kleine Säuger machen offenbar nur einen unwesentlichen Anteil der Nahrung aus
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The black-throated monitor is an active predator that is hunting for food. Invertebrates such as snails, centipedes, grasshoppers, beetles and crickets are most of the food. In addition, black-throated monitor also attack small to medium-sized snakes including cobras . Theblack-throated monitor also loots eggs and chicks from ground- and tree-breeding birds. Small mammals apparently make up only a negligible portion of the food
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A Gould's monitor at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida.
See a related video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7g5mQntks
The Nile monitor is a large member of the monitor family found throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa and along the Nile. The population of West Africa forests and savannahs is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the West African Nile monitor. Wikipedia
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Wildlife Photography.
See the reflection in the water ?
That's The Dog Palace roof.
Directly behind me is the nuns place.
To my right is Mama, to my left is
Micky. Rocky is leaning on me.
This is The Monkey Temple.
And yes this is a young lizard.
I've seen adults at 100 kilos.
They are very fast and can
catch a running chicken.
Everything is on their menu !
FYI,
About 10 meters over to the right
monkeys swim from The Dog Palace
over to this side as a jungle shot cut.
So what's that mean you ask ? Well,
think of it like when the zebras try
to swim a river full of crocodiles.
The bigger adult lizards can
wait under water for thirty
minutes before needing
new air. See where
this is going ?
Thanks for stopping by ;-)
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Found this magnificent lizard on my way down from climbing the Sigiriya rock fortress in Sri Lanka. It must have been at least 3m long if not more.
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Lizards in general look prehistoric to me, but the rock monitor looks like a smallish dinosaur. The reddish coloration on this lizard is from iron oxide found in the soil in Tsavo National Park.
Buntwaran (Varanus varius)
The lace monitor is a species of monitor lizard (Varanus) native to Australia. It inhabits forested areas in eastern Australia and is both ground- and tree-dwelling. Like all monitor lizards, the variegated monitor lizard is a diurnal solitary animal and, like most monitor lizard species, a carnivore.
The variegated monitor lizard grows up to 2 meters long and weighs up to 14 kilograms.
The name goanna is derived from iguana. Early European bush settlers in Australia likened goannas to the South American lizards.
Der Buntwaran (Varanus varius) ist eine in Australien heimische Art der Warane (Varanus). Sie bewohnt bewaldete Gebiete im Osten Australiens und ist sowohl boden- als auch baumbewohnend. Wie alle Warane ist der Buntwaran ein tagaktiver Einzelgänger und wie die meisten Waranarten ein Fleischfresser.
Der Buntwaran wird bis zu 2 Meter lang und wiegt bis zu 14 Kilogramm.
Der Name Goanna leitet sich von Iguana ab. Frühe europäische Buschsiedler in Australien verglichen Goannas mit den südamerikanischen Echsen.
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.
These little guys aren't mine--although I used to have mice. I saw them at Petco.
I love mice. They sleep with such conviction.
A lovely encounter with a monitor lizard on the banks of the river in Gorongosa.
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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.
May 20, 2017
This water beetle skating around low on the water's surface reminded me of images I had seen of early iron-clad warships of the US Civil War, Monitor and Merrimack.
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