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In India, the body oil of monitor lizards is sold for thousands of Indian rupees to residents in ... W. 1979 Research on monitor lizards. Tiger Paper 6(4): 20–21. ...
Monitor lizards are poached in some South- and Southeast Asian countries, as their organs and fat are used in some traditional medicines, although there is no scientific evidence as to their effectiveness. [38] [39] Monitor lizard meat, particularly the tongue and liver, is eaten in parts of India and Malaysia and is supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
Varanus sivalensis, also known as the Indian Dragon, is a species of monitor lizard that originally lived in India in the Pinjor Formation during the Pliocene through the early Pleistocene. [1] As its name implies, it was broadly comparable in size to the extant Komodo Dragon.
A huge monitor lizard explored a family's garage before it was caught hiding behind a Buddhist shrine. Footage shows the 5ft-long reptile crawling along the driveway before a resident discovered ...
Like all monitors, they have slender, elongated necks. The tails are heavy and muscular, being thick at the base and laterally compressed towards the end. [4] Most true monitors have lean bodies with long tails that can take up over half of their entire body length, but the largest species are very robust and have proportionally short tails.
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A sample of 55 Asian water monitors weighed 2–32 kg (4.4–70.5 lb). [11] The maximum weight of captive individuals is over 50 kg (110 lb). [12] In captivity, Asian water monitors' life expectancy has been determined to be anywhere between 11 and 25 years depending on conditions, in the wild it is considerably shorter. [13] [14]
This clip shows the moment a wild monitor lizard caused chaos as it scurried through an office canteen in Thailand in search of food. The 3ft-long reptile was roaming around the empty room when ...