perentie

The largest Australian monitor is the perentie, which can reach up to 2 m in length.

As a carnivore, the perentie feeds on a wide variety of prey.

Funding of captive breeding program for the Perentie monitor.

Lace monitors are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the perentie.

The most recognisable of these is probably the perentie, Australia's biggest lizard and the island's top predator.

Conversely, the perentie is considered more closely related to the Gould's and argus monitors.

While resting under a tree, Napoleon sees a perentie and hears loud barking coming from it.

Like the Perentie our range of accessories have evolved with time and are tough, resilient and above all excellent value for money.

The bite of a perentie can do much damage, not only from the teeth, but also because of the venom in their mouths.

The giant perentie has been observed killing a young kangaroo, and then biting out chunks of flesh like a dog.

In the heat of the afternoon, an enormous, spinifex-coloured perentie waddled into the middle of the road and just stood there.

The perentie (Varanus giganteus) is a large monitor lizard which also shares the same habitat.

Aborigines who hunt goannas for food consider the perentie as a high-risk (but tasty) prey.

An affinity with the perentie, Australia's largest living lizard, has been suggested based on skull-roof morphology.

Finally, Attenborough comes face to face with a perentie, Australia's largest monitor lizard.

Taylor is probably best known for her sculptures of animals, such as birds, numbats, snakes, the echidna, and the perentie lizard.

It is also one of the few known habitats in South Australia of the "giant perentie" (a large goanna).

They follow the sandy prints of a dingo and a perentie, a large lizard that whips its tail when cornered.

Development of a side facing seat and seat belt system for the Australian Army Perentie 4X4.

Typical of most goannas, the perentie will either freeze (lying flat on the ground, and remaining very still until the danger has passed) or run if detected.

Hunting is largely confined to the red kangaroo, bush turkey, emu, and lizards such as the sand goanna and perentie.

His sculptures are of the perentie lizard, a type of goanna from central Australia which is also Wara's totem.

Possible explanations are that it is a perentie, Australia's largest lizard, or a surviving Megalania, another large lizard thought to be extinct.

Animals occurring in the region include feral camels, dingos, goannas (including the large perentie) and numerous species of lizard and birds.

They associate it with spiritual stories about Wati Ngiṉṯaka (the perentie lizard man), a creation spirit from the Dreamtime.