First published in 1995 by Viper Press (the publishing arm of Mampam Conservation), Daniel Bennett's "Little Book of Monitor Lizards" survived subsequent editions in German and an edited English addition to appear online in 1999, once more under the complete control of the author. Still one of the most comprehensive and accurate guide to monitor lizards ever published, the "Little Book of Monitor Lizards" is now used as a source of funding for projects worldwide concerned with monitor lizard conservation, research and education. A pdf version of the original is available here .
First published in 1995 by Viper Press
(the publishing arm of Mampam Conservation), Daniel Bennett's "Little
Book of Monitor Lizards" survived subsequent editions in German and an
edited English addition to appear online in 1999, once more under the
complete control of the author. Still one of the most comprehensive and
accurate guide to monitor lizards ever published, the "Little Book of
Monitor Lizards" is now used as a source of funding for projects
worldwide concerned with monitor lizard conservation, research and
education.
As the monitors spread across the Earth experiencing different habitats and climates they diversified. Over many millions of years this process has resulted in the emergence of at least seventy or eighty (probably many thousands of) species. Some of them appeared to have died out quickly, whilst other, apparently ancient, species have survived until the present.
Our relationship with monitor lizards stretches back over 90,000,000 years. For almost all of this time they have been the predators and we the prey. The first documented cases of predation on monitor lizards by humans date back about 40,000 years (King 1962). Today mankind's relationship with the monitors is a complex one. They are undoubtedly the most important of the lizards to the human race.
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An obligate frugivore is an animal whose diet throughout its range consist largely of fruit. Other obligate frugivores in the Philippines include flying foxes, hornbills and other birds. The butaan is much larger than any other obligate frugivore in the Philippines and had a much more restricted diet; on Polillo the diet of adult butaan consists almost entirely of eight species of fruits and two species of snails.
The Timor monitor is a little jewel of a lizard. Many subspecies have been described but all are now assigned to different species (i.e. V.timorensis similis, V.timorensis scalaris and V.timorensis orientalis). The Timor monitor lives on just a few small islands in the south of Indonesia; Timor, Sawu, Roti and Samoa/Seman/Kisser.
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As the monitors spread across the Earth experiencing different habitats and climates they diversified. Over many millions of years this process has resulted in the emergence of at least seventy or eighty (probably many thousands of) species. Some of them appeared to have died out quickly, whilst other, apparently ancient, species have survived until the present. 
Our relationship with monitor lizards stretches back over 90,000,000 years. For almost all of this time they have been the predators and we the prey. The first documented cases of predation on monitor lizards by humans date back about 40,000 years (King 1962). Today mankind's relationship with the monitors is a complex one. They are undoubtedly the most important of the lizards to the human race. 
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