0 a large, powerful type of lizard (= a type of reptile) that is found in tropical areas. There are many different species of monitor lizard.
The throat and lower part of the neck of this monitor lizard is mostly yellowish.
Venison and the flesh of rabbit, turtle, tortoise, monitor lizard, wild boar and the common brown monkey are consumed with much relish.
The mangrove forest hosts some reptiles such as monitor lizard, mangrove snake and turtle.
Most species of monitor lizard have a predominantly carnivorous diet, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds and small mammals.
Monitor lizard populations were reduced to minimize their impacts of the newly released rails.
Among these are rock hyraxes, hares, marmots and, in one case, a 62cm in long monitor lizard.
The hide used is usually that of the monitor lizard (varanus exanthematicus) but also of young goats and sheep or even of the python.
Natural predators of magpies include various species of monitor lizard and the barking owl.
