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Originally posted by rwg
Alright, so for Mark and anyone else who has been bitten by a croc monitor, would you mind describing the situation and the outcome a bit? I'm really pretty curious about it. I've read that croc monitors are the only monitors with upper and lower teeth that scissor together making it easier to tear flesh.
Roy
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If you want to see teeth designed to tear flesh, look at the species which make a regular habit of eating carrion and have strong, serrated teeth. The brittle, hollow structure of salvadorii teeth are probably evolved for holding or jabbing prey through a thick layer of feathers or fur, rather than cutting chunks out.
It's not unlike comparing different species of sharks' teeth: the ones that grab and swallow whole prey (such as the grey nurse, or sandtiger, shark, which feeds on fish) have long, slender teeth. The ones that tear chunks out of larger prey (great white, which bites into seals, tiger shark, which takes chunks off turtles) have thicker, sharp edged serrated teeth.
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