Monitor Lizard - young

Description:

One of the lace monitor lizards because of the pattern on its body.Monitor lizards have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs.

Habitat:

Seen on a garden wall in a suburb of a town on the south coast

Notes:

While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds and small mammals, some also eat fruit and vegetation, depending on where they live. Monitor lizards are, as a rule, almost entirely carnivorous, consuming prey as varied as insects, crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Most species feed on invertebrates as juveniles and shift to feeding on vertebrates as adults.