just a photo

[Steeve B]

[JeffT]

Thats really cool. nice monitor.

[Bryce Masuk]

A beauty as always

[Steeve B]

This could have been an amazing shot, as this croc was ambushing a butterfly, unfortunately the butterfly isn’t on photo, and the next photo is flu.
Any way you can see this animal totally at home in the canopy.
Rgds

[Steeve B]

This photo shows the dexterity they have with there hands, they can grab and hold something much like a monkey, I haven’t seen this in other varanids.
This is my female Jayapura.
Rgds

[burmer]

Awesome monitor and great pics.

[V.hb]

Steve those are amazing photos.. Do you have a sectioned off yard where you do this??? I'd love to take my monitors outdoors, but theres nowhere safe to do it where I live.. To busy. Don't want to scare any people.

[markb]

Now this IS RESPONSIBLE Keeping of a salvadorii's monitor, not hand feeding it birds or holding it to your face free handling in a parking lot! Beautiful animals Steve....and Thank you for sharing...
Cheers,
markb

[Bryce Masuk]

Dont they dive off the tree's into the water to get food?
(What do they naturally eat?) then fly up the tree before a croc grab's them and makes em lunch?

[Steeve B]

These are 2 of the rarest varanids that ever came out of PNG, on these photos they are in there outside pen, impossible to escape. I have only one such pen, so I rotate my animals to give them a chance to explore a little.

Young Salvadorii don’t take to water often, they prefer the safety of trees. They feed on anything they can over power, they have such large teeth I guess this who’d enlarge there menu.

[Bryce Masuk]

What does PNG stand for?

[Steeve B]

Papua New Guinea, but they actually came from Jayapura! That’s the only known pair in the world (to date) a single adult male was also trapped on this expedition.
It’s very unlikely they will ever be trapped again in lowland Jayapura.
Making theme the rarest varanids, ever exported out of indo or anywhere else for that matter. Definitely not the kind of animal you want to escape in your back yard.
Rgds

[Bryce Masuk]

Doh! I forget the most obvious thing sometimes.....

Wow that must have been a significant investment in those 2 Which will surely come back to you if you produce offspring
You must have some amazing hookupz in the importing bussines
you definately are a true varnus connisure (sp?)

[markb]

As we know Steve, there are only a few Varanus, the archaeo-varanus with over-larged heads, V. komodoensis, V. varius, V. salvadorii, V. giganteus and Megalania prisca (and maybe V. doreanus??) which have jaws/head proportionaltely larger than their body ratios. This of course allows them to capture/kill/ingest prey much large than other Varanus of similar size, grow quicker and out-compete conspecific males and females when breeding season comes around....what an amazing animal. To see this animal 6000 miles from its native home in trees very similar to native NG lowlands chasing lepidoptera - amazing.

I will be working on rewritting soon, and will share them with you Steve before I submit them to publisher...sound good? Thanks for sharing. Your photos inspire my thoughts and make me think more of these animals - the pics tells me alot, as they do you about these animals....

Many Thanks Steve,
markb

[Steeve B]

Mark I bet you when these plums are ripe they will eat them! What do you think?