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Like all monitors, Crocodile monitor has anatomical features that enable it to breathe more easily when running than other lizards can, but it may have even have greater stamina than most other monitor species.
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Its teeth are better adapted than those of most monitors for seizing fast-moving prey. It lives in mangrove swamps and coastal rainforests in the southeastern part of the island, feeding on birds, small mammals, eggs, and carrion. It has a characteristic blunt snout and a very long tail. The tail of the species is exceptionally long, so that some specimens have been claimed to exceed the length of the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon however, Crocodile monitor is far less massive.Ĭrocodile monitor is an arboreal lizard with a dark green body marked with bands of yellowish spots. Its common names include Papua(n) monitor, Salvadori's monitor and artellia. It is the largest monitor lizard known from New Guinea, and is one of the longest lizards in the world, verified at up to 244 cm (8 ft). The crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii) is a species of monitor lizard endemic to New Guinea.