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Forum: Varanid 01-10-14, 12:48 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 3,461
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Varanus bengalensis - Kills a human

I think what the science has shown is that monitor lizards, along with many other lizard families, produce molecules of venom. Up to now, despite the hysteria and hype, there hasn't been any evidence...
Forum: Varanid 03-26-13, 09:43 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,048
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Savannah monitor book, ebook and Kindle

Can you smell it from there? That is news!
Forum: Varanid 03-26-13, 01:30 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,048
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Savannah monitor book, ebook and Kindle

I live at the bottom of the Snake Pass. When we become a sovereign state I expect we will charge people for driving through and imprison those who drive too fast!
Forum: Varanid 03-26-13, 01:28 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,064
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: varanus griseus

There aren't any other monitors that live in such harsh conditions: the summers in the central Asian deserts are too hot for lizards and the winters are much too cold. It's possible that the...
Forum: Varanid 03-25-13, 01:31 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,064
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: varanus griseus

Varanus griseus is CITES Appendix 1. All international commercial trade in the species has been banned for a long time. The reasons for this have nothing to do with conservation, and have been...
Forum: Varanid 03-25-13, 01:28 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,048
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Savannah monitor book, ebook and Kindle

I am from Glossop, which at present is not recognised as a sovereign state.
Forum: Varanid 03-14-13, 11:26 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,048
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Savannah monitor book, ebook and Kindle

Thanks for the feedback and sorry about the Kindle version. One reason it wasn't changed is that I have received no complaints about it, only internet "rumours", hence my inquiry here. Now I know the...
Forum: Varanid 02-18-13, 03:07 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,771
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?

Could you also try to find the papers you referred to in a discussion about the diet of savannah monitors last year, and details of the facility that breeds savannah monitors on a diet which contains...
Forum: Varanid 02-15-13, 01:45 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 3,771
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?

Savannah monitors use their tails as a drag/anchor when descending trees, which means that although they climb trees silently they make a lot of noise on the way down. They don't like to jump and...
Forum: Varanid 02-13-13, 06:23 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 3,900
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: The last dragon Special - Fruit eating Monitor

Avilon Zoo got one hatchling. The account of breeding V. olivaceus by Lutz is fabricated.
Forum: Varanid 02-12-13, 01:34 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 3,900
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: The last dragon Special - Fruit eating Monitor

Much of the confusion arises over anthropomorphic ideas of fruit. We tend to think of them as soft, sugary things like grapes and bananas. The primary food of all frugivorous monitors is Pandanus;...
Forum: Varanid 02-05-13, 02:11 AM
Replies: 132
Views: 6,938
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Monitor Care & Natural History; Zoo & Pet Experiences

Are there documentaries with savannah monitors? I want to see them!
Forum: Varanid 02-04-13, 02:58 AM
Replies: 132
Views: 6,938
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Monitor Care & Natural History; Zoo & Pet Experiences

Indeed it has, and this is the first "serious" opposition to the ideas that I have heard since the very early 21st Century. In the mid 1990s the husbandry techniques that Frank recommends were de...
Forum: Varanid 01-30-13, 05:10 AM
Replies: 132
Views: 6,938
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Monitor Care & Natural History; Zoo & Pet Experiences

The biggest breakthroughs in monitor lizard husbandry in the last quarter century have been the recognition that access to high basking temperatures and increased humidity are necessary to allow the...
Forum: Varanid 12-09-12, 06:06 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,048
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Savannah monitor book, ebook and Kindle

Hello I was unable to attend to my website for some months and the links to our savannah monitor book were broken. It's fixed at
Mampam Conservation - The Truth about Varanus exanthematicus - now an...
Forum: Varanid 12-09-12, 06:01 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,412
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Wild Savannah Monitor pics in Ghana

That's really interesting. Bushrat it is the same species, but that was a very old male from Shai Hills Game Reserve. If you get in touch with me I'd like to ask your help for a study of the lizards...
Forum: Varanid 08-18-12, 01:21 AM
Replies: 91
Views: 5,385
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: The Savannah Monitor Diet thread..

That is the point. If you only knew about badgers from animals that were kept as pets you would get a completely warped view of its ecology and lifestyle.

There isn't any work on how Varanids...
Forum: Varanid 08-17-12, 01:09 AM
Replies: 91
Views: 5,385
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: The Savannah Monitor Diet thread..

Yes, some butaan keepers have been experienced varanid breeders. In practical terms, monitor nutrition is all about fat. Mineral deficiencies are not an issue when you always coat your food in soil....
Forum: Varanid 08-16-12, 12:25 AM
Replies: 91
Views: 5,385
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: The Savannah Monitor Diet thread..

Interesting stuff. I very much doubt that, in the event of mass millipede and cricket extinction, that savannah monitors could compete with the animals (primarily snakes) that are already eating...
Forum: Varanid 07-28-12, 08:53 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,866
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Sav Eating Her Own Eggs?

I've found quite a few reptile eggs in monitor feces and the shells tend to be more or less intact
Forum: Varanid 07-28-12, 08:49 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,094
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: CB baby croc monitor

Have you ever seen a picture of a cbb monitor lizard hatching in an Indonesian "farm"?
Forum: Varanid 07-16-12, 09:52 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,256
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Save your Monitor Lizards!

Unfortunately not. The "farms" in Indonesia are scams, e.g.

http://www.traffic.org/species-reports/traffic_species_reptiles26.pdf
...
Forum: Varanid 07-02-12, 02:33 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,256
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Save your Monitor Lizards!

Interesting. Don't you think making live animals a commodity does exactly the same thing?
Forum: Varanid 07-02-12, 02:09 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,256
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Re: Save your Monitor Lizards!

Thanks to everyone for their input. I was hoping folks might view it the same way they do when they donate their loved ones' organs or bodies to medical science. I've tried for nearly twenty years to...
Forum: Varanid 07-01-12, 12:57 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,256
Posted By bodiddleyitis
Save your Monitor Lizards!

Hello I'd be grateful for any opinions about this, thanks.

Save Your Monitors!
Monitor lizards are heavily exploited for their meat and leather and for the international wildlife trade. There...
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