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Originally Posted by snake man12
Those are some lucky monitors, what size enclosure do you have them in it must be pretty big t6o support it's own ecosystem?
Also what is the difference between bosc monitors and savs?
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Bosc monitor is a Savannah Monitor, and the African trappers call them BOK. (their version of Bosc)
The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic waral, which translates as "monitor" in English. The specific name exanthematicus is derived from two Greek words: Exanthema meaning 'eruption' and mata meaning 'idle'.
French botanist and zoologist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc originally described this lizard as Lacerta exanthematicus in reference to the large oval scales on the back of the neck. the species is also known as Bosc's Monitor, since a French Scientist named Louis Bosc first described the species
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