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The Savannah Monitor gets its Latin name from the large, flat oval
scales on the back of the neck, and its common name from where it lives
on the African savannah
in the wild. The term savannah monitor is also used in reference to
several other species of savannah-dwelling monitors. In the U.K. the
species is often known as "Bosc's Monitor Lizard." It is a robust
creature, with powerful limbs for digging, powerful jaws and blunt,
peglike teeth. Maximum size is rarely more than 100cm. Its diet is much
more restricted than that of other African monitor lizards, consisting
mainly of snails, milipedes, orthopterans, beetles and other
invertebrates. The only vertebrates regularly consumed are amphibians. |
