Monitor Lizard
- Scientific Name:Varanus Albigularis
- Common Name:Rock Monitor/Monitor Lizard
- Habitat: The various species of Varanus cover a vast area, occuring through Africa, the Indian Subcontinent from Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka to China, down Southeast Asia to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and a large concentration of monitor lizards are found on Tioman Island in the Malaysian state of Pahang.
- Reproduction: They are reptiles so they do lay eggs. They are Oviparous, laying from 7 all the way up to 37 eggs.
- Prey: They really like to search and find whats oddly a delicacy pretty much to them, eggs..
- Three Interesting Facts:
- They have been known to be able to count up to 6.
- They have very strong and developed limbs.
- Monitor Lizards are eaten in parts of southern india and malaysia, where their meat is a considered an aphrodisiac.
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