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

Sida loo aqoonsado
- 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
Awoodda sunta
Suntu waxay ka soo baxdaa ilkihiisa sunta ama ilkihiisa marka uu qaniino.
Maxay samaysaa suntiisa (qaniin ama mudid)?
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
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Khatarta dadka: Xanuun badanAad buu u xanuunjin karaa, laakiin ku dhowaad weligiis khatar weyn ma aha.Muxuu sameeyaa marka uu baqo?
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
Haddii uu qaniino
- Dhaq nabarka, qofka ka dhig mid deggan oo hel caawimaad caafimaad.
Marka hore had iyo jeer wac lambarka gurmadka degdegga ah (112, 000, 911). Kani waa hage guud oo gargaar degdeg ah, ma aha talo caafimaad. Aasaaska gargaarka degdegga ah
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- Haddii mid ku qaniino: deg, ha dhaqaaqin, wac lambarka gurmadka degdegga ah (112, 000, 911) ama si degdeg ah u tag isbitaalka. Xusuuso sida uu u egyahay, sawir ayaa caawiya.
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dhererka 4 bisad guri oo san ilaa dabo isku xiga
dhererka 11 muus oo isku xiga
100 mitir wuxuu ku gooyn karaa 26 ilbiriqsi (qofka ugu dheereeya wuxuu u baahan yahay 9.6)Intee buu Desert monitor le'eg yahay marka ADIGA laguu barbar dhigo?
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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
Beeniye-jabiye
Khuraafaad: Only snakes, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have venom.
Run: 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
Khubarada sunta
- Magaca sayniska
- Varanus griseus
- Koox
- Mullacyo sun leh
- Qoys
- Varanidae2
- Kala horreynta
- Squamata
- Qaaradaha
- Afrika, Aasiya
- Carruurta yaryar
- 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
- Cimri
- qiyaastii 8 sano1
- Sida uu ugu nool yahay duurka
- CITES Appendix I1
- Khatarta dadka
- 2 / 5: Xanuun badan3
Meesha xaqiiqooyinku ka yimaadaan
- Desert monitor (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Varanus griseus (iNaturalist): magacyada iyo kala soocidda.
- Venom Wiki: heerka khatarta, cabbirka caadiga ah iyo qiyaasta xawaaraha annaga ayaa sameeyay. Eeg sida aan u xisaabinno: Sida aan u qiimeyno khatarta.
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