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Desert monitor

Varanus griseus

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Luschards tissientads

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

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

Viva en

North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-west India1

Africa, Asia

Pagina iniziala

It lives in barren deserts with sand or clay soil, and sometimes in wooded areas. It digs burrows and stays in them during the middle of the day. It also uses road surfaces for basking and scavenging for roadkill.1

Lunghezza

2 m (6,6 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 14 km/h (8,7 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

Its preferred prey is mice, eggs or fish, but it also eats other small mammals, reptiles (including other lizards, snakes and tortoises), birds, amphibians, insects, other invertebrates and carrion. It will take whatever food is available.1

Foto da Desert monitor — Desert monitor. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

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

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

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

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

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

Sch'el morda

Lava la plaja, tegna la persuna quieta e tschertga agid medicinal.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè lung sco 4 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 11 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 26 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Desert monitor cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

In uffant sin il velo circa 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

Desert monitor circa 14 km/h (8,7 mph)

Ina persuna che curra a tutta forza circa 37 km/h (23 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

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

Destructur da mits

Mit: Only snakes, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have venom.

Vardad: 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 experts da tissi

Num scientific: Varanus griseus
Gruppa: Luschards tissientads
Famiglia: Varanidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: Africa, Asia
Poppins: 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
Durada da vita: circa 8 onns1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: CITES Appendix I1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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