Water Monitor
Distribution
The Asian water monitor is widely distributed from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, the Chinese Guangxi and Hainan provinces, Malaysia, Singapore to the Sunda islands Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and Sulawesi.
Diet
The diet of the Asian water monitor in an urban area in central Thailand includes fish, crabs, Malayan snail-eating turtles, Chinese edible frogs , birds, small rodents, domestic cats and dogs , chickens , food scraps and carcass.
Information
The water monitor is a large species of monitor lizard. Breeding maturity is attained for males when they are a relatively modest 40 cm (16 in) long and weigh 1 kg (2.2 lb), and for females at 50 cm (20 in). However, they grow much larger throughout life, with males being larger than females.
