About:
Did you know about 70 percent of the spiny-tailed monitor's water comes from its prey? Learn more about the spiny-tailed monitor.
Care & Wellness:
They are excellent eaters, dining on insects and pinkie mice 3-4 times a week. In their habitat, they enjoy basking on flat rocks and digging burrows.
Behavior:
- This monitor is a solitary ground dweller active during the day.
- Rock crevices and burrows are used to retreat from extreme conditions, avoid predators, and as hunting sites.
- This monitor wedges its spiny tail into rocks so it cannot be pried out by predators.
Endangered Status
- Extinct in Wild (EW)
- Critically Endangered (CR)
- Endangered (EN)
- Vulnerable (VU)
- Near Threatened (NT)
- Least Concern (LC)
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Fun Facts:
- They are also called the ridgetail monitor.
- About 70 percent of the monitor's water comes from its prey.
- Their streamlined build allows them to enter and exit rock crevices and burrows with ease.
- Its tail is up to two times longer than the head and body.
