Mitchell's Water Monitor 
Varanus mitchelli

This photograph was taken at Perth Zoo

This monitor is found from northern Western Australia in the Kimberley, Lake Argile to far north western Queensland. 

 

This photograph was taken at Perth Zoo

This is a medium sized slender monitor. Approx 240mm in length.  It has a very long tail at 700mm.

It is arboreal (climbs trees) and semi aquatic.

Go here to see our video of this monitor swimming at Perth Zoo.

If pursued they will escape in water.

 

 It shelters in the vegetation along the watercourses, swamps and lagoons.

The female lays between 3-11 eggs.

 

 What do they eat? 

 Mitchell's water monitors feed on reptiles, fish, arthropods, frogs and tadpoles.

 

 

http://www..goannas.net/species/infos/mitchelli02.html

Text
"Australian Reptiles A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia" by Stephen K Wilson, David G Knowles.

 

 

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