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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 7, 2012 16:55:54 GMT -5
No problem, The whole reason I started this thread was to share information.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 7, 2012 16:56:24 GMT -5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 7, 2012 17:12:11 GMT -5
Some egg theft.
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Post by coherentsheaf on Apr 9, 2012 2:50:21 GMT -5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 9, 2012 14:46:11 GMT -5
Cool videos, Thanks for posting them.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 10, 2012 0:01:22 GMT -5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 10, 2012 0:30:30 GMT -5
I wonder how long it will take for monitor lizards to colonize america, even If the only species in florida was nile monitors. The monitor lizard design is extremely adaptable even the more specialized species look hardly different from the generalist. Given the range of habitats that monitors live in, They could colonize southern nothamerica, central america and south america.
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Post by coherentsheaf on Apr 11, 2012 0:26:43 GMT -5
I wonder how long it will take for monitor lizards to colonize america, even If the only species in florida was nile monitors. The monitor lizard design is extremely adaptable even the more specialized species look hardly different from the generalist. Given the range of habitats that monitors live in, They could colonize southern nothamerica, central america and south america. Ecological prediction isdifficult, butI think that further spreadof monitor lizards in america is quite likely.After all they areone of the most succedfulvertebrate genera that ever existed.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 25, 2012 21:30:21 GMT -5
Lace monitor bite GRAPHIC![](http://www.pbase.com/crocdoc/image/105979386.jpg)
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 25, 2012 21:36:27 GMT -5
![](http://qilong.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/varanus-skulls-figure.jpg) Skulls of species of Varanus, showing variation in the jaw anatomy that are essentially dietary in nature. A, Varanus exanthematicus (Bosc's monitor); B, Varanus gouldii (sand monitor, goanna). Bars beneath skulls represent jaw partitions, with labels: a, recurved, compressed teeth; b, blunt, incrassate teeth; c, position of the coronoid apex; q, position of the quadrate nadir; r, end of the retroarticular process. Scale bar (top left) represents 1 cm. Crushing Teeth Bosc’s Monitor (Varanus exanthematicus) is a consumer of snails, predominately and almost exclusively, although it also consumes various other non-vertebrate (and generally soft) foods. The massive mandible and anteriorly placed jaw adductor muscles (as noted by the high and forwardly-positioned coronoid process of the jaw, help provide crushing strength to the rear teeth, which are more globular, thicker, wider, and lower than the teeth anterior to them. These features help enforce the “durophagous” jaw morphology of various amniotes. Then there’s a more “typical,” carnophagous Varanus (the sand monitor [or Gould's goanna], Varanus gouldii). It bears a more slender skull; angles of muscles (including the adductor complex) act on the jaw in a more longitudinal rather than vertical manner, so vertical reinforcement of the skull (as in Varanus exanthematicus) is lacking. The sand monitor is a generalist, consuming a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate prey, is an active hunter, and also consumes eggs, but it specializes on vertebrates. Such teeth are precisely developed to allow the tearing of flesh, rather than the crushing of shells. qilong.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/why-dont-tyrannosaurs-have-all-bananas-for-teeth/The actual artical is about T-rex This is only a segment of it.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Apr 26, 2012 18:22:01 GMT -5
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Post by coherentsheaf on Apr 29, 2012 3:12:39 GMT -5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on May 15, 2012 19:21:18 GMT -5
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Post by Ultimategrid on May 31, 2012 19:37:47 GMT -5
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Post by Venomous Dragon on May 31, 2012 19:40:19 GMT -5
Ouch.
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