Bengal Monitor and Komodo Dragon

Bengal monitor lizard and Komodo dragon:

There are 3 subspecies of Bengal monitor lizard. The body is large, the head is long, and the snout is long; the eyelids are well developed, and the pupils are round; the tympanic membrane is exposed; the tongue is long and slender, the apex is deeply bifurcated, and can be retracted into the tongue sheath at the base; there are large lateral teeth with a wide base; the temporal arch is complete, The retroorbital arch is incomplete. There are no symmetrical large scales on the top of the head; the dorsal scales are granular, round or oval; the ventral scales are quadrilateral and arranged in horizontal rows; the scales are supported by dermal bone plates under the scales.

The Komodo dragon is an animal of the genus Monitoridae. Also known as the Komodo dragon, it is the largest lizard known to exist today. Komodo dragons are ferocious and their adults eat the young of the same species and sometimes other adults. It can move quickly and occasionally attacks humans; but it mainly feeds on carrion, leaving its burrows to search for food several kilometers away every day.

Morphological characteristics of the Bengal monitor lizard

The Bengal monitor lizard has yellow spots on its body, its head is triangular, its body is more than 90 centimeters long, and its tail alone is 50 centimeters long. has reached 10.2 kilograms. In the wild environment, males are generally more than 42% overweight than females. The nostrils are eye-shaped and located in the center between the eyes and the muzzle. The western subspecies and the eastern subspecies can be distinguished based on characteristics such as body color and scale appearance.

Adult Bengal monitor lizards are generally gray or gray-green, with gray-black markings from the chin to the abdomen and tail. These markings are usually darker in the west and lighter in the east. These ventral markings often darken the skin as we age. The heaviest male Bengal monitor lizard recorded in the wild weighed 7.18 kilograms.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bengal Monitor

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Komodo Dragon