- CHARACTERISTICS
- It is an animal that reaches an adult size of around a metre in length.
The adult specimens weigh approximately 5 to 5,5 Kg.
These reptiles have a massive head, with a snub nose.
- DIET
- Small mammals, birds, invertebrates and occasionally eggs.
- REPRODUCTION
- Takes place during the time of greatest abundance of food, which in nature is during the rainy season.
They lay between 20 to 50 oval-shaped eggs that measure approximately 66 by 34 cm., and which will be buried in a hole of 15 to 30 cm. depth and dug by the female, or deposited in the hollow trunk of a tree.
- CURIOSITIES
- They are animals that have strong jaws populated with sharp teeth that can inflict more than painful wounds.
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- NAME
- Monitor
- HABITAT
- Savannahs of Central Africa
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Varanus albigularis
- SPICE
- Reptile
- DIET
- Carnivorous
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