Beauty of Nature: White-Throated Lizard
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Beauty of nature.
Lizard locates food by smelling air.
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White-Throated Monitor (Varanus albigularis albigularis) tracks food using tongue to find a wide range of prey. In this video, filmed on February 19, 2017, a demonstration of a monitor lizard's ability to "scent prey" -- that is, to find prey by smelling the air with his tongue first, and then his eyes to find as monitors eat carrion -- or to follow/track, dispatch, and consume. Monitor lizards are fascinating, and nature's disposal system!
The lizards are known to eat eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, birds, crabs, snakes, and carrion.
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.