Discover strange facts about monitor lizards: Komodo dragons, water monitors, Nile monitors, perenties, savannah monitors, and the giant predatory lizards...

Komodo dragons use venom, not bacteria, to kill prey. Expert guide to the world's largest lizard, its hunting tactics, and why it dominates the Indonesian islands.

Discover monitor lizards - the most intelligent reptiles on Earth. Expert-written guide covering Komodo dragons, water monitors, Nile monitor cognition, perenties, crocodile monitors, venom research, and conservation across 80+ species in genus Varanus.

Everything about the Nile monitor: size, habitat, diet, hunting, reproduction, intelligence, invasive range, and the strange facts that make Varanus niloticus Africa's largest lizard.

Everything about the Asian water monitor: size, habitat, diet, swimming, urban adaptation, reproduction, conservation, and the strange facts that make Varanus salvator the world's second-largest lizard.

Everything about the perentie: size, habitat, diet, tripod stance, venomous bite, Aboriginal cultural significance, and the strange facts that make Varanus giganteus the largest lizard in Australia and the fourth-largest on Earth.

Everything about the savannah monitor: size, habitat, burrowing and aestivation, insect-heavy diet, pet trade pressures, conservation, and the strange facts that make Varanus exanthematicus Africa's stocky ground-dwelling varanid.