The mouths of Galathea, Alexandria and Dagmar rivers are the popular leatherback nesting sites in Great Nicobar Island (Bhaskar, 1993). This dome of plant material offers shelter for the piglets during their first vulnerable hours and days. A monitor lizard is a family of lizards that range in size from half a foot long (15cm) ranging all the way to the largest known lizard, the Komodo dragon, which can weigh up to 364 pounds (165 kilograms). Sugar levels in CSF fluid can be as low as 17% when compared to plasma glucose (Chotmongkol et al., 2000). As soon as the male has succeded in luring the female into the bower mating takes place. In South Asia, they are known as hangkok in Meitei,ghorpad घोरपड in Marathi, udumbu in Tamil and Malayalam, bilgoh in Bhojpuri, gohi (गोहि) in Maithili, in Sinhala as කබරගොයා (kabaragoya), in Telugu as udumu (ఉడుము), in Punjabi and Magahi as गोह (goh), in Assamese as gui xaap, in Odia as ଗୋଧି (godhi), and in Bengali as গোসাপ (goshaap) or গুইসাপ (guishaap), and गोह (goh) in Hindi. The turtle nest are found all around Andaman and Nicobar Islands coastal regions in the East and West coast. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. The West African Nile monitor is now found in South Florida[3] and in Singapore. ]), and display of throat fans, beards, and dewlaps.2. Plasma T and total estrogens have been measured in the white-throated savannah monitor, Varanus albigularis (Phillips & Millar, 1998). They do live in the tropical lowland evergreen rainforest and in the mountain forest. Dog/Cat Foods contain high levels of fat which can collect on your monitor's organs and kill them. They nest in 12 sites in the Nicobar group and 3 sites in Little Andaman with a peak nesting season is from September to October. "Large-scale exploitation" of monitor lizards is undertaken for their skins, which are described as being "of considerable utility" in the leather industry. The marine turtles of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are protected under various acts including Wildlife Protection Act 1972, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild flora and fauna (CITES), Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 1991 (Notification No.S.0.114(E) of 19 February 1991) and The Fisheries Act of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Murugan, 2004). When lipidosis is advanced, most affected reptiles are in poor body condition and are flaccid, weak, and cachectic. and King, R.A. (2004). [41], Monitor lizards have become a staple in the reptile pet trade. Crystallization that occurs in the synovial fluid results in an acute painful inflammation of the joint, a condition called gouty arthritis (Figure 54-4). [15] This allows monitor lizards to create mammalian-equivalent pressure differentials between the pulmonary and systemic circuits,[15] which in turn ensure that oxygenated blood is quickly distributed to the body without also flooding the lungs with high-pressure blood. Antigen with a molecular weight of 29 or 31 kDa is highly specific for A. cantonensis (Maleewong et al., 2001; Eamsobhana and Yong, 2009). Severely affected animals usually will be depressed, lethargic, and weak; mucous membranes may be pale, hyperemic, or icteric.