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02-15-13, 01:15 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
Nice pic, good thread : )
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02-15-13, 01:45 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
Savannah monitors use their tails as a drag/anchor when descending trees, which means that although they climb trees silently they make a lot of noise on the way down. They don't like to jump and I've only seen them do it when they are severely provoked.
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02-15-13, 05:11 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
Looking through my vast sea of pictures, found this one where the tail is hooked under a rock for balance..
Now to search the mass of unpublished pictures, I know I have one where Littlefoot hooks onto the front sill of his enclosure to lower himself.
Using the tail to grasp tree..
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02-15-13, 05:27 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
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what comes to mind when i see this pic is a meerkat.
but has anyone every thought to try taking there monitor outside and perching them on a branch that would just be high enough for him/her to hang from (the same height as the lizard is long) and see how they get themselves down, or even the fact that, as stated before, a captive animal is not an animal with fully natural behaviour, simply because they dont need to use all of there natural behaviours and in 1 sence, they become "lazy" because everything is done for them:
food is readily supplied;
they learn that they are safe in there environment;
they dont need to scout for warm spots as there always a basking area in there enclosures;
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maybe its this reason why younger monitors are more prone to using there tails as that is exactly what they would do in the wild as for the first year or so of there lives, they would react more to there basic instinct than an adult would.
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02-15-13, 06:01 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
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what comes to mind when i see this pic is a meerkat..
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Nah, here is a meerkat pose for you...
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02-16-13, 11:56 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
I have noticed my Sav do this several times. Wish I had some pics. When I pick him up he uses his tail and wraps it around my arm and when I go to put him back in his enclosure he actually wraps it around my arm. I can feel it almost tighten a bit around my arm and have to remove it myself to let him go.
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02-17-13, 10:34 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
What? Really? Then I guess I'll need to add new pictures. 
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02-18-13, 03:07 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
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What? Really? Then I guess I'll need to add new pictures. |
Could you also try to find the papers you referred to in a discussion about the diet of savannah monitors last year, and details of the facility that breeds savannah monitors on a diet which contains no vertebrates? Apologies if I've missed either of these through lack of attention.
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02-18-13, 11:35 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
so much for tail usage.....
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02-18-13, 11:43 AM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
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so much for tail usage.....
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Isn`t it always the way! (Still an interesting development, though)... 
Try showing a few more photos/videos of your two using that appendage. No point in me putting any up when it`s specifically about V. exanthematicus...
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02-18-13, 03:59 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Savannah Monitors?
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Isn`t it always the way! (Still an interesting development, though)...
Try showing a few more photos/videos of your two using that appendage. No point in me putting any up when it`s specifically about V. exanthematicus... |
I changed the title... post away.
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02-18-13, 04:25 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Varanids (Monitor Lizards)
I currently only have a Blue Tongue Skink and a Leopard Gecko, so no Varanids yet. Both of these animals though are definitely terrestrial and no where near arboreal. But, I have noticed with both that when I hold them off the ground while putting them bad into their cages, sometimes they will curl their tails around my arm(or finger for the Gecko lol) and it can be a little bit difficult at times to remove the tail off of me. So I would think that there is some degree of prehensility in almost all lizards.
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02-18-13, 04:36 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Varanids (Monitor Lizards)
I've noticed my leopard geckos will also do this.
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02-18-13, 04:59 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Varanids (Monitor Lizards)
Blue tongue skinks are actually quite good climbers, I don`t think most people are aware just how good, considering the tiny legs.
(Though strictly speaking they`re not Varanids).... 
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02-18-13, 05:10 PM
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Re: Prehensility in the tails of Varanids (Monitor Lizards)
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Blue tongue skinks are actually quite good climbers, I don`t think most people are aware just how good, considering the tiny legs.
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Tell that to Molly, who once got stuck in a shallow box.
I realize she isn't the norm, though.
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