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

Yadda za ka gane shi
- 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
Ƙarfin dafi
Dafi yana fitowa ta haƙoransa na dafi ko haƙoransa idan ya ciza.
Me dafinsa yake yi?
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
Yaya haɗarinsa yake ga mutane?
Haɗari ga mutane: Mai raɗaɗiYana iya yin ciwo sosai, amma kusan bai taɓa zama mai tsanani ba.Me yake yi idan ya ji tsoro?
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
Idan ya ciji
- Ka wanke raunin, ka sa mutumin ya natsu kuma ka nemi taimakon likita.
Kullum ka fara kiran lambar gaggawa (112, 000, 911). Wannan jagorar agajin gaggawa ce ta gaba ɗaya, ba shawarar likita ba. Muhimman abubuwan agajin gaggawa
Kiyaye lafiya
- Kada ka taɓa, kada ka kama, kada ka tsokani dabbar daji, ko da ƙarama ce, kuma ko da tana kama da tana barci ko ta mutu.
- Ka ba shi sarari. Idan ka haɗu da ɗaya, ka natsu, ka koma baya a hankali kuma ka bar shi ya bi hanyarsa.
- Idan ɗaya ya ciji ka: ka natsu, ka zauna ba motsi, ka kira lambar gaggawarka (112, 000, 911) ko ka je asibiti da sauri. Ka tuna yadda yake, hoto yana taimakawa.
Ba ya neman cutar da kai. Yana amfani da dafinsa don kama abinci ko don kare kansa, kuma ya fi son ya ɓuya. Ƙarin bayani game da kiyaye lafiya
Yaya girmansa yake?
Yaya tsawonsa yake?
tsawon kyanwoyin gida 4 daga hanci zuwa wutsiya
tsawon ayaba 11 a jere
zai iya gudun mita 100 cikin daƙiƙa 26 (mutum mafi sauri yana buƙatar 9,6)Yaya girman Desert monitor yake idan aka kwatanta da KAI?
Lissafi ne kawai a cikin burauzarka. Ba a adana komai ko a aika ko'ina.
Yaya saurinsa yake?
Bayanai
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
Mai karya tatsuniya
Tatsuniya: Only snakes, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have venom.
Gaskiya: 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
Don ƙwararru a kan dafi
- Sunan kimiyya
- Varanus griseus
- Rukuni
- Ƙadangaru masu dafi
- Iyali
- Varanidae2
- Tsari
- Squamata
- Nahiyoyi
- Afirka, Asiya
- Jarirai
- 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
- Tsawon rai
- kusan shekaru 81
- Yadda yake a cikin daji
- CITES Appendix I1
- Haɗari ga mutane
- 2 / 5: Mai raɗaɗi3
Inda bayanan suka fito
- Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): sunaye da rarrabuwa.
- Venom Wiki: matakin haɗari, girman al'ada da ƙiyasin sauri namu ne. Ga yadda muke lissafa su: Yadda muke auna haɗari.
Kowane bayani a wannan shafi yana da lamba da ke nuna tushensa. Idan mun yi kuskure, ka yi haƙuri, mu masoya dabbobi ne, ba mujallar kimiyya ba. Ka gaya mana a [email protected] kuma za mu gyara.
Cizo

