Desert monitor
The desert monitor is a large lizard that lives across North Africa, Central Asia and parts of South Asia. It can grow to almost 2 metres long and hunts a wide range of animals, including snakes. Its bite can inject venom, which is why it is worth knowing about.1

Com reconèixer-lo
- Body colour ranges from light brown and yellow to grey.1
- Many have horizontal bands on the back or tail, and yellow spots across the back.1
- Young lizards are bright orange with distinct bands across the back, which may fade as they mature.1
- Nostrils are slits set farther back on the snout, closer to the eyes than the nose.1
- Males are larger and more robust than females.1
Poder del verí
El verí surt pels ullals o les dents quan mossega.
Què fa el seu verí?
Its bite can introduce venom through venom glands in the lower jaw. The venom has a neurotoxic effect, which attacks the nerves. In humans, symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, muscle pain, a fast heartbeat, difficulty breathing and diarrhoea. Symptoms can start within about 20 minutes and last around 24 hours, although itching at the bite area can last for at least two months.1
Com de perillós és per a les persones?
Perill per a les persones: DolorósPot fer molt de mal, però gairebé mai no és greu.Què fa quan té por?
When its body temperature is below 21 °C and it is chased by a predator, it will not run away. Instead it holds its ground and becomes extremely aggressive.1
Si mossega
- Renta la ferida, mantén la persona tranquil·la i busca ajuda mèdica.
Truca sempre primer al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911). Això són pautes generals de primers auxilis, no consells mèdics. Primers auxilis bàsics
Estigues segur
- No toquis, atrapis ni molestis mai un animal salvatge, encara que sigui petit i encara que sembli adormit o mort.
- Deixa-li espai. Si en trobes un, mantén la calma, recula a poc a poc i deixa que segueixi el seu camí.
- Si te'n mossega un: mantén la calma, no et moguis, truca al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911) o ves de pressa a un hospital. Recorda com era, una foto ajuda.
No va a per tu. Fa servir el verí per caçar o per defensar-se, i prefereix mil vegades amagar-se. Més sobre com estar segur
Que gran és?
Quant fa de llarg?
fa de llarg com 4 gats de casa del nas a la cua
fa de llarg com 11 plàtans en fila
podria recórrer 100 metres en 26 segons (l'humà més ràpid necessita 9,6)Que gran és Desert monitor comparat amb TU?
Només càlculs al teu navegador. No es desa ni s'envia res enlloc.
Com de ràpid va?
Dades
Their running speed depends on body temperature. It rises from a little over 1 metre per second at 21 °C to around 3 metres per second at 37 °C.1
Desert monitors are good swimmers and divers, and they sometimes enter water to hunt for food.1
They can live in cold places. The species is present as far north as south-west Kazakhstan, which makes it one of the few monitor lizards that tolerate cold temperatures.1
In Morocco, many desert monitors die after climbing into concrete rainwater wells called matfias and becoming trapped.1
Some populations in the Indian subspecies do not truly hibernate. Instead they slow down, become lethargic and stop feeding from December to March.1
Desmuntamites
Mite: Only snakes, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have venom.
Veritat: Venom was once thought to be unique to these animals, but this is no longer the case. Venom glands are found in the lower jaws of most, if not all, monitor lizard species.1
Per a experts en verins
- Nom científic
- Varanus griseus
- Grup
- Llangardaixos verinosos
- Família
- Varanidae2
- Ordre
- Squamata
- Continents
- Àfrica, Àsia
- Cries
- It lays 10 to 20 eggs in a clutch. The eggs hatch after an average of 120 days, and the babies are about 25 cm long at birth.1
- Esperança de vida
- uns 8 anys1
- Com li va a la natura
- CITES Appendix I1
- Perill per a les persones
- 2 / 5: Dolorós3
D'on surten les dades
- Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): noms i classificació.
- Venom Wiki: el nivell de perill, la mida típica i la velocitat estimada són nostres. Mira com els calculem: Com valorem el perill.
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