Malayan Water Monitor

The Water monitor Varanus salvator is a member of the monitor lizard family. They are large lizards growing up to 9 feet long. Their body is muscular with a long powerful tail. Water monitors are perhaps the most ubiquitous monitor lizards in Asia, and range from Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and various islands of Malaysia. They live in tropical forested areas. Water monitors are very opportunistic in their feeding eating small mammals, birds, fish, insects and carrion.