Lizard overwhelmed by feeder chicks. His brain short-circuits. ♥
Feeding enclosure.
Health insurance is available for exotic pets for health or injury, as per end of video. Shop around. Make sure to take care of your pets.
Asian Water Monitor (Various salvator) tracks food using tongue to find a wide variety of prey. In this video, filmed on April 9, 2007, a demonstration of a monitor lizard's reaction time to dispatch food. Video also shows the lizard's ability to quickly "scent prey" -- that is, to find prey by smelling the air with his tongue first, approximately 5 to 10 feet (1.5 to 3 m) away, and then using eyes to locate a feeder chick. Monitors have forked tongues; please note how lizard swings his head side to side to follow/track, locate, dispatch, and consume food -- as if "stereoscopic" (see below). Monitor lizards are fascinating animals.
Forked tongues are split into two tines at the tip. As seen in video, reptiles smell using (the tip) of their tongues, and a forked tongue allows them to sense from which direction a smell is originating. Following scent trails based on chemical cues is called tropotaxis. It's unclear whether forked-tongued reptiles can actually follow trails or if this is just a hypothesis. Study the video -- what do you think?
Monitor lizards are known to eat birds, eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, crabs, snakes, and carrion. They are also nature's disposal system.
We think of predators as taking down large adult prey -- but in reality young prey are frequently the bulk of a meat-eater's diet. It's why prey species often give birth to many offspring to compensate for high rates of predation.
This video focuses on the science of reptile behavior that supported a master's thesis in zoology. Video is made public for the citation for junior high school, and high school science reports. Also recommended for college and graduate level source citation for zoological biostatistics.
Filmed with the University of Guadalajara for Biological and Agricultural Sciences, the division of Biological and Environmental Science Division, at the department of Botany and Zoology.
Feeding enclosure.
Health insurance is available for exotic pets for health or injury, as per end of video. Shop around. Make sure to take care of your pets.
Asian Water Monitor (Various salvator) tracks food using tongue to find a wide variety of prey. In this video, filmed on April 9, 2007, a demonstration of a monitor lizard's reaction time to dispatch food. Video also shows the lizard's ability to quickly "scent prey" -- that is, to find prey by smelling the air with his tongue first, approximately 5 to 10 feet (1.5 to 3 m) away, and then using eyes to locate a feeder chick. Monitors have forked tongues; please note how lizard swings his head side to side to follow/track, locate, dispatch, and consume food -- as if "stereoscopic" (see below). Monitor lizards are fascinating animals.
Forked tongues are split into two tines at the tip. As seen in video, reptiles smell using (the tip) of their tongues, and a forked tongue allows them to sense from which direction a smell is originating. Following scent trails based on chemical cues is called tropotaxis. It's unclear whether forked-tongued reptiles can actually follow trails or if this is just a hypothesis. Study the video -- what do you think?
Monitor lizards are known to eat birds, eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, crabs, snakes, and carrion. They are also nature's disposal system.
We think of predators as taking down large adult prey -- but in reality young prey are frequently the bulk of a meat-eater's diet. It's why prey species often give birth to many offspring to compensate for high rates of predation.
This video focuses on the science of reptile behavior that supported a master's thesis in zoology. Video is made public for the citation for junior high school, and high school science reports. Also recommended for college and graduate level source citation for zoological biostatistics.
Filmed with the University of Guadalajara for Biological and Agricultural Sciences, the division of Biological and Environmental Science Division, at the department of Botany and Zoology.
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