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

Hono anndirtee ngal
- 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
Doole tooke ŋatgol
Tooke no yaltira ñiiƴe mum tuma ngal ŋatata.
Ko honɗun tooke mum waɗata (ŋatgol walla jukkugol)?
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
Hono musiiba mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Musiiba e yimɓe: MuusɗoNo waawi muusugol sanne, kono ko ɓadii kala tuma ɗum wonataa musiiba mawɗo.Ko honɗun ngal waɗata si ngal hulii?
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 no ŋata
- Loot gaañande nden, deeƴnu neɗɗo on, heɓu ballal doktoro.
Adii fow noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wanaa saaraangal doktoro. Ko adii nder ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a jalnu kullal ladde haa abada, hay si ko tokooso, hay si no yi'ee no ɗaanii walla maayii.
- Accu ngal nokku. Si a fotti e ngal, deeƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- Si gooto e majji ŋatii ma: deeƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero ballal (112, 000, 911) walla yahu lopitaan law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal no walla.
Ngal faalaaka gaañugol ma. Ngal no huutora tooke mum ngam nanngugol ñaamdu walla reenugol hoore mum, ngal ɓuri yiɗugol suuɗaade. Ko ɓeydi fii reenugol hoore maa
Hoto nder aduna?
Hono mawniri?
Hono juutiri?
juuti no ulluuɗi suudu 4, hinere haa lawol
juuti no banaanaaji 11 jokkondirɗi
no waawi taccugol meeteruuji 100 nder segonde 26 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawugol sokli 9,6)Hono Desert monitor mawniri, si fooɗondiraama e AN?
Ko limoore tun nder navigateur maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee ka nokku woo.
Hono yaawiri?
Humpito
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
Bonnoowo fenaandeeji
Fenaande: Only snakes, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have venom.
Goonga: 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
Ngam ganduɓe tooke
- Innde ganndal
- Varanus griseus
- Fedde
- Lezaari tooke
- Ɓesngu
- Varanidae2
- Ordre
- Squamata
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Afirik, Aazi
- Ɓiɓɓe tokosɓe
- 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
- Duuɓi nguurndam
- wona duuɓi 81
- Hono ngal woniri nder ladde
- CITES Appendix I1
- Musiiba e yimɓe
- 2 / 5: Muusɗo3
Ɗo humpitooji ɗin iwri
- Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): inɗe e ŋoordingol (classification).
- Venom Wiki: tolno musiiba, mawnugol aadaajo e miijo yaawugol ko amen. Ndaar no min ƴeewtirta ɗum: Hono min tolnirta musiiba.
Kala humpito nder ngoo hello no jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. Si min juumii, yaafo, min ko yiɗɓe kulle, wanaa jaaynde ganndal. Haalan min e [email protected], min feewnitan.
Ŋatgol

