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

No anndirte 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
Tooke ngal ina yaltira ñiiƴe mum so ina ŋata.
Hol ko tooke ŋatgol mum waɗata?
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
Hol no bone mum heewiri e yimɓe?
Bone e yimɓe: MuusɗoIna waawi muusde sanne, kono hertaani wonde huunde mawnde.Hol ko ngal waɗata so ina hula?
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
So ina ŋata
- Loot gaañande nden, deƴƴin neɗɗo oo, heɓ ballal cafrol.
Adii fof noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911). Ɗum ko anndinal ballal adiingal, wonaa saaraangal doktoor. Ko adii e ballal adiingal
Reen hoore maa
- Wota a meem, wota a nanngu, wota a ñiŋŋu kullal ladde haa abada, hay so ngal ina famɗi, hay so ina nanndi e ɗaaniingal walla maayngal.
- Accu ngal nokku. So a fotti e ngal, deƴƴu, ruttu ɓaawo seeɗa seeɗa, accu ngal yaha laawol mum.
- So gooto ŋatii ma: deƴƴu, wota a dillu, noddu nimero urgence (112, 000, 911) walla yahu opitaal law. Jogo e hakkille no ngal nanndi, natal ina walla.
Ngal faalaaka gaañde ma. Ina huutoroo tooke mum ngam nanngude ñaamdu walla reenaade, ina ɓuri yiɗde suuɗaade. Ɓeydu anndude no reentortoo
Hol to e aduna?
Hol no mawniri?
Hol no juutiri?
juutde no ulluuɗi galle 4, hinere haa lawol
juutde no banaanaaji 11 sammondiraaɗi
ina waawi taƴde 100 meeteer e segonde 26 (neɗɗo ɓurɗo yaawde ina sokli 9,6)Hol no Desert monitor mawniri, so fooɗondiraama e AN?
Limgal tan e navigatoor maa. Alaa ko danndetee walla ko neldetee.
Hol no 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
Feññinoowo fenaande
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
- Lezaarji jogiiɗi tooke
- Ɓesngu
- Varanidae2
- Ordre
- Squamata
- Leyɗe mawɗe
- Afrik, Aazi
- Ɓiɓɓe tokooso
- 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
- Juuteendi nguurndam
- hedde duuɓi 81
- Hol no ngal woniri e ladde
- CITES Appendix I1
- Bone e yimɓe
- 2 / 5: Muusɗo3
Ɗo humpito iwri
- Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): inɗe e ceergal.
- Venom Wiki: tolno bone, mawnude heewnde e miijo yaawde ko amen. Yiy no men keɓirta ɗum: No men tolnirta bone.
Kala humpito e ngoo hello ina jogii limoore hollirnde iwdi mum. So men juumii, yaafo, men ko yiɗɓe kulle, wonaa jaaynde ganndal. Wiy men e [email protected], men feewnita.
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