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16-Sep-07, 02:48 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: hornsby area, sydney Age/Gender: 14  | | |
when for my own little bushwalk/mini mountain climb today at bobin head, and saw a nice little heath monitor( or a lacie, but pretty sure it was a heath monitor) - actually, it was quite big lol
was eating this plant and saw me and than ran away up these rocks 
wish i had the camera
he was pretty cool, moved like a goanna and kept sticking his tongue out like a snake.
i learnt heaps of stuff from seeing about 10 seconds of a heath monitor 
- they have blue tongues
- quite large
- arboreal
- omnivourous
- move like goannas
- theyre awesome |
16-Sep-07, 02:51 PM
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If it was definitely eating a plant it wasn't a monitor. They are strictly meat eaters.
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16-Sep-07, 02:52 PM
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Eating a plant? that is unusual are you sure it wasnt eating something in or near the plant?
I have heard of them eating non meat food stolen from ppl but never heard of it happening in the wild.
Cant argue with them being awesome though |
16-Sep-07, 02:53 PM
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oh, well it was sticking its head around there or something, probably turning around because it was definatley either a heath monitor or a lacie.
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16-Sep-07, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by boa  If it was definitely eating a plant it wasn't a monitor. They are strictly meat eaters. | could have been one of those fruit eating ones from overseas  |
16-Sep-07, 02:59 PM
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Did it look like this ? 
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16-Sep-07, 03:00 PM
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cant remember exactly, i already checked in my book ' A feild guide to REPTILES of Nsw 2nd edition' but yeah i think it looked that that, heath monitor
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16-Sep-07, 03:04 PM
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*field
good book | |
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