RE: what do monitor lizards monitor?

["Bartlema, Lauri, L." <BartlemaL@emh10.bliss.army.mil>]

Well, now that explains the family name, Varanidae, for me.  That was one I
had wondered about.


Lauri L. Bartlema
Curatorial Assistant
Conservation Division
Directorate of Environment
Fort Bliss, Texas

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> From:         Dann Pigdon[SMTP:dannj@alphalink.com.au]
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> Subject:      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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