TAILIEUCHUNG - Monitors, Tegus, and Related Lizards: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual

Monitors originate in Asia, Africa, Australia, and Indonesia, and come in many varieties, including the world's largest and some of its smallest lizards. Here is advice on caging and care of its various kinds, including the Savanna Monitor, the White-Throated Monitor, Blue-Tailed, Ridge-Tailed, and many others. Also featured is a general introduction to this reptilian family, a checklist of monitors found around the world, a glossary, and a bibliography. | Teg Preface This book is about monitors and tegus lizards of two different families some of which grow to a considerable size. Several species of these lizards are commonly available in the pet trade and their care requirements are much alike. The first chapters of this book cover equivalent care requirements of these lizards. The second part of the k discusses the moni- tors also referred to as varanids for their family Varanidae and the third the tegus also called teiids for their family Teiidae and their immediate relatives. When we first began keeping monitors and tegus there weren t a great number of species available. Eight or ten monitors and perhaps two or three tegus all wild-caught were all that one expected to encounter. Although the species have changed somewhat today there remain just six to ten monitors seen with any regularity in the American pet trade and the number of commonly seen teiid species has dropped to one. and. sadly most specimens remain wild-caught. In those early days information on the field of reptile husbandry was limited to a list of a dozen 1930s to 1960s books that mentioned diet or perhaps habitat details just in passing. The idea of going out in the field just to look at reptiles was greeted largely with snorts of disbelief. Neither herpetology nor herpetoculture were mainstream. Today things have changed but from the monitor s and tegu s vantage points not necessarily for the better. Suitable habitats have dwindled lizard-skin leather goods are fashionable. the keeping of reptiles has become an accepted and interactive hobby and the pressures on the existing monitor and tegu populations elevate daily. Our knowledge of monitor and tegu husbandry and breeding lags far behind that for many other lizards. But we re improving. Some of the once uncommonly seen monitors and tegus have become the focus for captive-breeding and hobbyists are even trying to breed some of the more commonly imported and inexpensive species. Bookshelves .

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