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Vegetation monitoring is done every two years. Exotics and native species are located and counted during this monitoring. In the above photo, plant species are identified and counted within the space between the two poles. The black tape on the poles are a foot apart and aid in quantifying how much of one species is within the sample space. This sampling took place before planting in 2008. Eventually, the ground was covered in plant life.
Fish swim around the wreck of the USS Tarpon near Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. (Photo: Tane Casserley/NOAA)
Coal Empties bound for Holden 29 Feats Loadout make their way onto the short Island Creek Subdivision at Monitor Junction. CSX Spirit Unit #1853 commemorating the New York Centrals services is seen playing the role of rear pusher, as it will lead back into Peach Creek Yard hours later.
Dampier Peninsular Monitor Varanus sparnus. Photographed in-situ, in Pindan shrubland, 30 years before this species was described. Broome, WA. Pre-digital image 1987
The blank stare of a Komodo Dragon monitor lizard. This handsome dude is located in the Asian Bamboo Gardens section of the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.
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A tree-climbing Clouded Monitor Lizard in Dairy Farm Nature Reserve.
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Combined native range of all the monitor lizards
Skulls of various varanoids
Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as an invasive species. About 80 species are recognized.
Monitor lizards have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs. The adult length of extant species ranges from 20 cm (7.9 in) in some species, to over 3 m (10 ft) in the case of the Komodo dragon, though the extinct varanid known as megalania (Varanus priscus) may have been capable of reaching lengths more than 7 m (23 ft). Most monitor species are terrestrial, but arboreal and semiaquatic monitors are also known. While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds, insects, and small mammals, some also eat fruit and vegetation, depending on where they live.
The lace monitor or lace goanna (Varanus varius) is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas. It belongs to the subgenus Varanus.
Lace monitors are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the perentie. They can be as long as 2.1 m with a head-and-body length of up to 76.5 cm. The tail is long and slender and about 1.5 times the length of the head and body.The maximum weight of lace monitor can be 20 kg , but most adults are much smaller.
These common terrestrial and often arboreal monitors are found in eastern Australia and range from Cape Bedford on Cape York Peninsula to south-eastern South Australia. They frequent both open and closed forests and forage over long distances (up to 3 km a day).
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Fiscal Affairs Department Director Vitor Gaspar participates in the Fiscal Monitor press conference during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Allison Shelley
13 October 2021
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: AS211013001.ARW
The ornate monitor is a species of monitor lizards native to West Africa. They live in lowland rainforests. Ornate and Nile monitors are often confused. Although they have somewhat similar markings, they are very different animals, and they are now recognized as separate species. There are many simple ways to tell them apart, look at the tongue.
A Nile monitor has a dark blue or purple-blue tongue. An ornate monitor has a pink tongue.
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Ein Nilwaran am westlichen Rand des Makgadikgadi-Pans-Nationalparks (Botswana).
A Nile Monitor in the Most Western Part of the Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve (Botswana).
I couldn't believe the beautiful pattern on this Crocodile Monitor Lizard at the Calgary Zoo. It looks as if it is made from exquisite, fine, beadwork! Truly amazing!
"Varanus salvadorii, first described in 1878, is the largest species of monitor lizard found in New Guinea, and is believed to be one of the longest lizards in the world, reaching up to 244 cm (8.0 ft). It is an arboreal lizard with a dark green body and yellowish bands, a blunt snout and a very long tail. It lives in mangrove swamps and coastal rain forests in the southeastern part of the island, where it feeds on birds, small mammals, eggs, and carrion in the wild, using teeth that are better adapted than those of most monitors for seizing fast-moving prey. Like all monitors it has anatomical features that enable it to breathe more easily when running than other lizards can, and V. salvadorii is thought to have greater stamina than most monitors. Little is known about its reproduction and development, as the species is very difficult to breed in captivity.
V. salvadorii is threatened by deforestation and poaching, and is protected by the CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species) agreement. The lizard is hunted and skinned alive by tribesmen to make drums, who describe the monitor as an evil spirit that "climbs trees, walks upright, breathes fire, and kills men". However they also say that it gives them warnings if there are crocodiles nearby." From Wikipedia.
Water monitor (Varanus salvator macromaculatus) - Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
I had climbed up on the rocky banks surrounding a jungle stream and was clambering around a section that was too deep to wade through. I looked up and saw this, a young water monitor clinging to a tree overhanging the river. He had seen me before I saw him and was already awake and watching me, I snapped one photo and took a step back and he couldn't handle my presence anymore and flung himself into the dark water below to make his getaway. I also came across a water monitor sleeping in the water with just the tip of its nose protruding above the surface on a different occasion. After this one jumped in the water I waited around for about 10 minutes to see if it would emerge, I didn't see it again. It might have snuck past me or moved up or down river or potentially even still have been hiding underwater somewhere, I'm not sure how long a monitor like this could remain underwater for.
A highly sensitive monitoring station, capable of intercepting signal traffic across the boundaries of conventional equipment.
The monitor comprises the display device, circuitry and an enclosure. The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) thin panel, while older monitors used a cathode ray tube (CRT) about as deep as the screen size.
An extension agent from the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring cowpeas planted by IDPs, Maiduguri, Borno State.
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This is an old monitor which serves as the base for the new bed. Muahahahaha. The story takes an evil turn to scrapping an old monitor.
The pass is closed all winter as they don't remove snow during the season. The results of last year's Washington Fire can be see throughout the area.
A very nice picture of the 15" monitor H.M.S. Roberts.
I trod the decks of this vessel in the mid fifties when she was lying alongside the Vanguard at Portsmouth.
It is interesting that these ships were able to 'flood down' to deck level and sit on the sea bed. This provided for a more stable gun platform and also reduced their own 'target profile' against counter fire.
This very nice picture is the property of Captain Rex Cooper, OBE, and is shown here by his kind permission.