The Bengal monitor lizard is a kind of lizard with strong survivability. Its body size is not small and it has a very strong immunity to various poisons. Therefore, some common poisons in nature are also its food. Let the editor introduce the flat-headed brother among reptiles - the Bengal monitor lizard!

I. Basic Information

【Chinese name】Bengal Monitor Lizard

【Foreign name】Bengal Monitor Lizard

【 Alias: Common Indian monitor lizard

[Latin name] Varanus bengalensis

[Kingdom] Animalia

[Door] Chordate

【Subfamily】Chordates

【Class】Reptiles

【Order】Lizards

【Suborder】Skinks

【Family】Montosauridae

【Genus】Montosaurus

【Species】Bengali Monitor Lizard

【Distribution Area】3 Subspecies

[named and dated] Daudin, 1802

Second, appearance characteristics

The Bengal monitor lizard has a yellow color on its body Spot, its head is triangular, its body length is more than 90 centimeters, and its tail alone is 50 centimeters long. In the wild, male Bengal monitor lizards are generally more than 42% overweight than females. Its nostrils are cleft-shaped, located in the center between the eyes and the snout. Adult Bengal monitor lizards are generally gray or gray-green, with gray-black markings from the chin to the abdomen.

III. Living habits

Bengal monitor lizards mainly live on the ground and also climb trees. They usually feed on insects, spiders and other arthropods, frogs, lizards, Snakes, fish, snails and small invertebrates are also favorite foods.

IV. Protection level and status

1. status

The main threat facing Bengal monitor lizards is habitat The land is destroyed, and the indirect impact is the pesticide pollution in the agricultural areas where the species live, which reduces their available food resources, and hunting by humans is also one of the main reasons.

2,  protection level

Currently, the Bengal monitor lizard has been included in the 2012 Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1 - low risk (LC) and Washington Convention CITES class I protected animals.

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