Water Monitor eats Fish
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Asian water monitors are natural fish eaters.
Lizards use tongues to locate food.
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Asian Water Monitor (Various salvator) are natural fish eaters. Lizard locates food using tongue to find a wide variety of prey. Monitors have forked tongues, so they swing their heads side to side to follow/track, locate, dispatch, and consume food. Monitor lizards are fascinating animals.
Forked tongues are split into two tines at the tip. As seen in video, reptiles smell using the tip of their tongue, and a forked tongue allows them to sense from which direction a smell is coming. Following scent trails based on chemical cues is called tropotaxis. It's unclear whether forked-tongued reptiles can actually follow trails or if this is just a hypothesis. Study the video, what do you think?
Monitor lizards are known to eat birds, eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, crabs, snakes, and carrion. They are also nature's disposal system.
This video focuses on the science of reptile behavior that supported a master's thesis in zoology. Video is made public for the citation for junior high school, and high school science reports. Also recommended for college and graduate level source citation for zoological biostatistics.