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Re: what do monitor lizards monitor?

Monitor lizards are known in Arab countries as the Ouran or varan. Apparently
"Ouran" sounds a bit like a German word, (for "Sentry" I think) that was later
mis-translated into English as "Monitor". I don't have the exact text with me
(it's somewhere in Rodney Steel's "Living Dragons").

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