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Rock monitor
Varanus albigularis
-25.0035, 31.6956
Field Notes
Description:
Rock monitor have long necks, powerful tail and claws, and well-developed limbs. They are solitary creatures and hibernate in a semi-dormant state in a chosen retreat for winter.
Habitat:
The rock monitor, also called the legavaan or white-throated monitor, is a species of monitor lizard especially found in Southern Africa. Resident throughout most of savannah and semi-desert habitat . Live in tunnels they dig under rock overhangs or in vacant animal burrows, holes in a tree or a crack in a rock.
Notes:
Rock monitor is carnivore - targeting are land snails, grasshoppers, millipedes and beetles. It will also tuck into carrion and baby tortoises are often targeted.
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