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A Big Aussie Reptile

Started Dec 17, 2015 | Photos thread
vass
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Re: A Big Aussie Reptile

Lace monitors get to 2.1m long and upto 20kg. Perentie would even get bigger at upto 2.5m (head to tail) and just about 20+kg.

Maybe they don't grow as large in colder Australian climates.

John King wrote:

Ripper shots, Vass. Well done mate.

I took some shots of a truly enormous 'lace monitor' at Healesville Sanctuary (that's what the enclosure plate said ... ). I remain convinced to this day that it was actually a Komodo dragon as a ring in ... it was at least 1.5 metres from snout to base of tail, and AFAIK none of our monitors grow as large as that!

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