Bengal monitor
common Indian monitor
varanus bengalensis latin

Bengal monitors have fat deposits in the tail and body that serve them in conditions when prey are not easily available.

The park also contains Bengal monitor and Water Monitor populations.

Bengal monitors are usually solitary and usually found on the ground, although the young are often seen on trees.

Among reptiles, Rock python and Bengal Monitor lizard are quite common.

The park is home to various reptile species including Bengal monitor and Malayan pit viper.

Like other varanids, Bengal monitors have a forked tongue that is protruded in the manner of snakes.

Monitor lizard species found in the park include the Bengal monitor and the Water Monitor.

Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)

Bengal monitors, like other varanids, show true sleep at night and are diurnal, becoming active around 6 AM and bask in the morning sun.

The Bengal monitor's belly skin has traditionally been used in making the drum head for the kanjira, a South Indian percussion instrument.

Saltwater Crocodile, Indian python, Water monitor, and Bengal monitor are among the other reptiles.

Bengal monitors have external nostril openings (nares) that is slit-like and oriented near horizontal, and positions between the eye and the tip of the snout.

The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis) or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over South Asia.

This species infects the Bengal monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis) and land monitor lizard (Varanus cepedianus).

Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), also known as the Common Indian Monitor, is a monitor lizard found throughout Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Their mandibular glands produce secretions at the base of the teeth, and although some varanids have been shown to have a venom, no toxicity has been reported in the Bengal monitor.

Other reptiles at the park include water monitor, Bengal monitor, Indian black turtle, Indian flapshell turtle, Indian star tortoise, spotted rock gecko and South Asian chamaeleon.

The marine limestone environment favours a long list of reptiles, including the Bengal monitor, flying lizard, banded sea snake, dogface water snake, shore pit viper and Malayan pit viper.

It is covered on one side with a drumhead made of monitor lizard skin (specifically the Bengal monitor, Varanus bengalensis, now an endangered species in India), while the other side is left open.

Some of the more prominent examples include the Bengal monitor, Gloydius himalayanus (a pit viper), the Elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata), Trimeresurus albolabris septentrionalis, and the Yellow Monitor.

Among the other animals, the fishing cat, Asiatic black bear, Muntjak, masked palm civet, bamboo rat, tree shrews, the Asiatic Softshell Turtle and the Bengal Monitor deserve mention.

The specific name is Latin for "destroyer", a reference to "the adaptations of the teeth for piercing, cutting, and lacerating the prey" of a form he estimated to be equal in size to the present Bengal monitor.

And as a reptile lover, he also enjoys this bonus: His curators have managed to breed endangered species like Bengal monitors and, for the first time in captivity, even a Rhacodactylus lizard, also known as a giant New Caledonia gecko.

Reptiles here include the endangered Indian python and the common Indian monitor.

The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis) or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over South Asia.

Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), also known as the Common Indian Monitor, is a monitor lizard found throughout Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

According to a popular legend in Maharashtra, a common Indian monitor, with ropes attached, was used to scale the walls of the Sinhagad fort in the Battle of Sinhagad.

(The ghorpad, or the Common Indian Monitor,grows up to 1.8m in length, and its natural habitat is rocky terrain, which it scales by gripping crevices with its strong claws: it is also hunted in villages as food.)

Some species of tortoise and turtles-especially the endangered star tortoise, lizards, geckos, chameleons and the common Indian monitor lizard-are found here, as well as a large variety of insects including 60 species of spiders and 60 species of butterflies.

Reptiles Some of the reptiles commonly sighted in this park are common vine snake, king cobra, common cobra, russell's viper, bamboo pit viper, rat snake, olive keelback, common wolf snake, common Indian monitor, draco or gliding lizards and marsh crocodiles.

Auffenberg, W. 1979 Intersexual differences in behaviour of captive Varanus bengalensis.

Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)

The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis) or common Indian monitor, is a monitor lizard found widely distributed over South Asia.

This species infects the Bengal monitor lizard (Varanus bengalensis) and land monitor lizard (Varanus cepedianus).

Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), also known as the Common Indian Monitor, is a monitor lizard found throughout Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.