Monitors, Tegus, and Related Lizards

by Bartlett, Richard D.; Bartlett, Patricia Pope; Barghusen, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780812096965
• ISBN10: 0812096967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: B E S Pub Co

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	4	(5)
Understanding Your Monitor or Tegu	5	(3)
Choosing a Monitor or Tegu	5	(1)
Captive-Raised versus Wild-Collected	6	(2)
Caging	8	(7)
Cage Size	8	(1)
Cage Furniture	9	(1)
How-To: Make a Quasi-Natural Outdoor Cage	10	(1)
Cage/Terrarium Cleanliness	11	(1)
Lighting and Heating	11	(2)
Natural Sunlight	13	(1)
More Heating Hints	14	(1)
Feeding and Watering Techniques	15	(10)
The Menu	15	(1)
Feeding	16	(1)
Insects: Catching Your Own	17	(1)
Insects: Purchasing or Raising	17	(3)
Mice and Rats: To Purchase or Breed	20	(1)
Vitamin/Mineral Supplements	21	(1)
Watering and Hydration Techniques	21	(4)
Handling	25	(4)
How-To: Handle Your Monitor or Tegu	28	(1)
Health	29	(10)
Diet-Related Health Problems	29	(2)
Mechanical Injury	31	(4)
Pathogens and Parasites	35	(1)
Respiratory Disorders	35	(4)
Breeding	39	(7)
How-To: Making Your Own Incubator	42	(4)
Taxonomy---A Far from Final Word on Names	46	(1)
Photography	47	(3)
Basic Equipment Needs	47	(3)
Introduction to the Monitors	50	(4)
The Lizard Family Varanidae	50	(4)
Some Pet Store Favorites	54	(25)
African Monitors	54	(6)
Asian/Indonesian Monitors	60	(11)
Australian Monitors	71	(8)
The Komodo Dragon	79	(1)
The World's Largest Lizard	79	(1)
The Earless Monitor	80	(2)
Family Lanthanotidae	80	(2)
A Brief Checklist of Eagerly Sought, but Hard-to-Acquire Monitors	82	(4)
Introduction to the Teiids	86	(3)
Three Teiid Genera	89	(10)
The Dwarf Tegu and Monitor Tegu, Callopistes	89	(2)
The Caiman Lizards, Dracaena sp.	91	(1)
Tegus, Tupinambis sp.	92	(7)
Useful Addresses and Literature	99	(2)
Glossary	101	(2)
Index	103