mangrove monitor造句

• Female mangrove monitors lay two to 12 eggs that measure 3.5 to 5 cm in length.
• Mangrove monitors are often kept in zoos and private collections, as they are an active and alert, and generally can be handled if tamed properly.
• It is very closely related to the mangrove monitor ( " Varanus indicus " ), with both belonging to the subgenus " Euprepiosaurus ".
• The mangrove monitor possesses a Jacobson's organ, which it uses to detect prey, sticking its tongue out to gather scents and touching it to the opening of the organ when the tongue is retracted.
• The mangrove monitor is one of only two species of monitor lizards, the other being " V . semiremex ", that possess salt-excreting nasal glands, which enable them to survive in saltwater conditions and to consume marine prey.
• The mangrove monitor's range extends throughout northern Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the Mariana Islands, where it inhabits damp forests near coastal rivers, mangroves, and permanent inland lakes.
• This monitor has the ability to increase the size of its mouth by spreading the hyoid apparatus and dropping the lower jaw to eat large prey, a process similar in appearance to that of snakes, although the jaw of the mangrove monitor remains rigid.
• They will also attempt to lower the mangrove monitor population on Cocos Island by 80 %, using several trapping methods proposed by herpetologist Seamus Ehrhard, as the lizard is believed to prey upon the endangered Guam rail ( " Gallirallus owstoni " ).
• Mangrove monitors in the Southern Mariana Islands shifted major prey classes when their regular prey began declining . but the introduction of the brown tree snake ( " Boiga irregularis " ) led to decreased shrew numbers, prompting the monitors to switch to eating invertebrates and foraging through human garbage.
• The "'mangrove monitor "', "'mangrove goanna "', or "'Western Pacific monitor lizard "'( " Varanus indicus " ) is a member of the monitor lizard family with a large distribution from northern Australia and New Guinea to the Moluccas, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Mariana Islands.
• ""'Varanus rainerguentheri " "', commonly known as "'Rainer G黱ther s monitor "', is a species of lizard, which is a member of the mangrove monitor species-complex . " V . rainerguentheri " was described in 2007 from specimens originally designated as " Varanus indicus " from the island of Halmahera in the northern Moluccas, Indonesia.