#argus monitor

[mcr-as-reptilez]

skeleton onesie gerard as this photo of an Argus Monitor

fun fact!: an argus monitor will typically stand on its back legs in order to try and spot prey from a distance or enemies when it feels threatened

[saying-odd-shit]

some pictures of some fuckass argus monitors pretending to be people

[drhoz]

#1259 - Varanus panoptes - Yellow-spotted Monitor

AKA Argus Monitor. I didn’t get a usable photo of the lizard itself, but the tracks are easily identified as a monitor at least - there aren’t many other lizards in Australia that big, and all of them are monitors too.

Dr Bryan Fry with a desert spotted monitor. Myself, I’d be extremely cautious around an annoyed monitor that big - they can really mess you up. And not just because some Varanus species are venomous. Annoyingly, I found a reference to this species being checked for venom, but no information on what the result of that check was.

Incidentally, the habitat of standing up on their hind feet while they decide whether or not to shred you alive is how they got the name of ‘Monitor’.

Varanus panoptes is up to a meter and half long, and one of northern Australia’s largest predators, this species was formerly common, but has been decimated (in the popular sense of 90% of them dead) by Cane Toads. Just biting a toad is sufficient to kill an adult. 

They’re riparian in habit, most often found around water (so what one was doing out near Garden Rock is a little puzzling) and happily swims in pursuit of prey - fish, crabs, small birds, rodents, insects and other monitors, smaller reptiles and carrion, and digging up the eggs of turtles and crocodiles. When not out hunting or fucking up your day, they reside in a burrow, and spend most of their time there in the late dry season when there’s little food around. It lays up to 13 eggs in the wet season, which take a minimum of 7 months to hatch. In the past, this species was one of the favourite foods of northern Australian Aboriginal peoples.

Cue, WA

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[hydras-fury1997]

Got my mom one of her Monitors back for an early B-Day present. She was really happy😁 Oh yea has an Argus Monitor named Artemis~

[herps-and-derps]

My argus monitor domino is perfect and I will fucking fight anyone who says otherwise.

[herps-and-derps]

My argus monitor domino is perfect and I will fucking fight anyone who says otherwise.

[obsessiveanimalnerd-blog]

This is Wrath the Argus monitor :) Such great personality with this little guy!