Beauty of Nature: Lizard Happily Eats Food on Couch
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White-Throated Monitor eats a gopher.
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, such as this gopher. In this video, filmed on April 15, 2017, which demonstrates a monitor lizard's ability to "scent prey" -- that is, to find prey by smelling the air with his tongue, then once close using eyes to locate. Lizards, like reptiles in general, follow/track, dispatch, and consume. Monitor lizards are fascinating, and an important part of nature's disposal system!
Monitor 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.