Talk:Monitor lizard

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Hi, Can you lizard experts please help these two images find a home?

Sand monitor on Brampton Island, Queensland.

Sand monitor walking tracks in sand.

I know nothing about lizards, so I don't know what species of lizard this is, hence I have no idea where these images should go. All I know is that people referred to them as "sand monitors". Advice sought. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 06:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

There is an arcticle in goanna called sand goanna I presume it would go there.--βjweþþ (talk) 17:29, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you - I added a very basic stub at sand goanna, but people who know about lizards really should double-check it. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 23:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Venomous?

this article says that some monitor lizards, including komodo dragons, are venomous, but the komodo dragon page says that they are in fact not venomous, they just harbor 50 strains of bacteria, which I've heard several times before. I would change it but it says that's a new theory so for all I know they may have found true venom in komodo dragons, whichever is the case, either this page and the venom page should be changed or komodo dragon should.--CallmeNiel 08:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I had thought it was rather well accepted that this was a common myth about monitors (especially the Komodo Dragon). Moreover, the Goanna page appears to suggest that Monitors do not produce venom. Since the article cites no references, I've editted to list it as such. If references aren't added in the future, someone should remove the disputed text.--Anthony Liguori 16:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image moved

I moved the image of the Nile monitor down into the section where it actually appears [right now, on my monitor...I've got Civ3 running, so I think my res is currently 640x480]. The reason I did this (it doesn't change the appearance at all on my monitor) is because all the [edit] tabs were clustered down by the species list, whereas now they're all at the "right place"s. I don't know if this is a software problem or a browser problem (I'm using FireFox on a Windows box right now). Just in case anyone's wondering why I made such an apparently pointless (at first blush) edit... Tomer^talk 05:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] oaran / warnen story

Uh...this oaran / warnen story is really suspicious. That w is pronounced with a v sound (a sound Arabic doesn't even have), and so is just as likely to be confused with oaran as almost any other word. Is there some better source for this legend, perhaps citing specific naturalists? — Laura Scudder ☎ 14:48, 11 July 2006 (UTC)