Rock monitor

Description:

Rock monitor have long necks, powerful tail and claws, and well-developed limbs. They are solitary creatures and hibernate in a semi-dormant state in a chosen retreat for winter.

Habitat:

The rock monitor, also called the legavaan or white-throated monitor, is a species of monitor lizard especially found in Southern Africa. Resident throughout most of savannah and semi-desert habitat . Live in tunnels they dig under rock overhangs or in vacant animal burrows, holes in a tree or a crack in a rock.

Notes:

Rock monitor is carnivore - targeting are land snails, grasshoppers, millipedes and beetles. It will also tuck into carrion and baby tortoises are often targeted.