Feeding Chunks of Meat to Komodo Dragon-sized Lizard
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Quality time with a giant Asian water monitor. He's a total love. Largest lizard in the world next to Komodo dragons.
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On March 1, 2018 an Asian Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) is fed raw meat (pork) in his inside enclosure.
We feed pork occasionally. It's a good treat and the lizards enjoy the variation in diet. Water monitors are related to Komodo dragons who are predators of wild pigs.
Video is part of a body of work that focuses on the science of reptile feeding behavior that supported a master's thesis in zoology. Currently working on PhD in reptile venom research.
Monitor lizards are nature's disposal system, and fascinating creatures!
Video for online degree programs, bachelor degree accreditation, and biostatistics for reptile feeding behavior, and a biology degree in the zoological sciences.
Monitor lizards are known to eat eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, birds, crabs, snakes, and carrion such as wild pig, deer and other large mammals.
As seen in the beginning of video, lizard's forked tongue is split into two tines at the tip. The lizard smells (tastes?) using tip of his tongue that rubs against a Jacobson's organ, which is believed to allow them to sense "stereoscopically" from which direction a smell originates.
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?
Video is for the citation for junior high school, and high school science reports. Also recommended for college and graduate level source citation for zoological biostatistics.
Filmed with the University of Guadalajara for Biological and Agricultural Sciences, the division of Biological and Environmental Science Division, at the department of Botany and Zoology.