Croc photo

[Steeve B]

Belzibut means Satan!
He behaves like the devil too! charging me out his enclosure always trying to find ways to bypass my sheild. No Dough hes a monster alright
Rgds
I love him

[TheRedDragon]

Wow, he looks awesome!

[mbayless]

Both Dr. Frankenstein and Boris Karloff were fond of their "monster" too!

Best Regards,
markb

[snakegal12345]

nice croc monitors

[B-Rep]

With those pictures you can truly see the underlying wisdom they possess. The intelligence and awareness it takes to survive in thier eyes. An example of this is the way the croc is...

"always trying to find ways to bypass the sheild."

What great monitors...

[mbayless]

I could be mistaken, and often I am, but is the salvadorii monitor the only varanid with forward vision apparatus (like a T-Rex?)? This binary vision of course gives the animal depth perception, which is advantageous for a canopy dragon pursuing prey high in the trees after fast moving, but unsuspecting ambush prey.... Among varanids, I cannot think of another species where the vision is forward, rather than opposing bilateral eyes...
cheers,
markb

[Steeve B]

If you keep making me talk about my research, I won’t have much to talk about when aim finished.

First tell me! is it this photo that gave you a hint? Because know body else have noticed about there forward vision capabilities, but now that your on it, let me show you something know body knows about salvadorii.
Look at supraocular alignment morphology in male and female, then compare the slender nose of the male, allowing him better front vision. Males of this specie are super predators more so then there female counterpart, they are adapted to move faster too, the main reason for this improved adaptation are many, better suited to protect territory, there biology allows them to be less cautious then females (fat bodies, Gravid) there larger size allows them to hunt bigger preys and get to them faster as they carry less dead weight (body fat), therefore having more muscle power. Females of this specie from hatchelling to 6 feet have bigger heads then male, allowing better protection and more biting power, also giving them more chances to feed on many preys.

Just by there head morphology we can see they have some different food preys, at least part of there life.

I have much more data on this, however I will leave it at this for now!

Rgds

[mbayless]

Steve,
I am speechless - that is absolutely amazing and typical evidence of your passion for varanids, and in my meager opinion, not theory at all, but basic biology revealed by a fellow theory guy - and that aint BS either!!! Lets see a field biologist find that in his 7 days explorations of PNG for Varanus salvadorii and discover this!!!??? I doubt he/she will even find one! He won't find it either, but just another example of what a pet-shop scientist/arm-chair biologist can do....

Many Thanks Steve,
markb

[Tim and Julie B]

Absolutely fascinating!

[Mr.Lizard]

I love the pic of the croc in the tree,reminds me of the velociraptors of Jurassic Park.

[mark129er]

that is one amazing croc