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Lace monitor / Goanna (Varanus varius) latin dict size=132   common dict size=512
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Lace monitor / Goanna (Varanus varius)

[Photo] Beschreibung: Varanus varius on a tree trunk, in Byfield National Park, Queensland. Fotograf: ZayZayEM

Lace monitor
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The Lace Monitor, or Lace Goanna, Varanus varius, is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas.

Lace Monitors, are also known as Lace Goannas in Australia and are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the Perentie. These common terrestrial and often facultatively arboreal monitors are found in eastern Australia and range from Cape Bedford on Cape York Peninsula to south-eastern South Australia. They frequent both open and closed forests and forage over long distances (up to 3 km a day).

They are mainly active from September to May, but are inactive in cooler weather and shelter in a tree hollow or under a fallen tree or large rock.

The females lay from 4 to 14 eggs in spring or summer in hollow trees or stumps, termite nests, or even just a hole in the ground. They frequently attack the large composting nests of Scrub Turkeys to steal their eggs, and often show injuries on their tails inflicted by male Scrub Turkeys pecking at them to drive them away.

The tail is long and slender and about 1.5 times the length of the head and body.

They grow to over 2 metres in total length. Their patterning consists of white spots, blotches or bands on their body. Their distribution is chiefly coastal. Their diet typically consists of insects, reptiles, small mammals, birds and birds' eggs.

In late 2005, University of Melbourne researchers discovered that perenties, along with iguanas and other monitors, are venomous. Previously, it had been thought that bites inflicted by these lizards were simply prone to infection because of bacteria in the lizards' mouths.

Like all Australian goannas, they were a favourite traditional food of Australian Aboriginal peoples and their fat was particularly valued as a medicine and for use in ceremonies.

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