Melissa
Kaplan's
Herp Care Collection
Last updated
January 1, 2014
Monitor Lizards (Varanus) Information
Melissa Kaplan, 2000
Species
Care
Nile Monitors (V. nilotictus) - Baumann
Savannah Monitors (V. exanthematicus)
- Kaplan
Zimbabwe Rock Monitors (V. albigularis)
- Zupich
Varanid Sites
Daniel Bennett's Monitor
Lizards
Eric Pianka's
Pygmy and Desert Monitors
Ardi
Martin's Nile Monitor Care
Kingsnake.com's
Australian Herp Links
Kingsnake.com's
Monitor Species List (many photo links)
Special Concerns
Michael
Balsai on the Savannah Monitor Diet
by Melissa Kaplan. While this article discusses the inherent problems
of the diet recommendations that were recently published in a herp magazine,
it is also a good illustration of the problem with reading only herp magazines
for herp care information, and why gathering as much information as possible
about the wild habits of species are important to issues related to their
captive care and health.
Daniel
Bennett's "Misunderstanding The Savannah Monitor"
by Daniel Bennet. Bennet was frequently misquoted or otherwise misinterpreted
in the D.H. Good article in Reptiles magazine in February 1998. Since
the magazine would not publish his corrections, Bennet has made the corrections
available at his website.
TIGR Reptile Database: Varanidae
