Giant Lizard Tracks a Squirrel 100' Downwind

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Beauty of nature: lizard's remarkable ability to discover food 100' downwind by scent.

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Asian Water Monitor (Various salvator) tracks food using tongue to find a wide range of prey. In this video, filmed on August 27, 2015, demonstrates the monitor lizard's ability to find his favorite food, a squirrel, by smelling air with his tongue first, and then using eyes to locate the food item. Monitors have forked tongues, and swing their heads side to side to follow/track, locate, dispatch, and consume food.

As seen in the video, forked tongues are split into two tines at the tip. Reptiles smell using the tip of their tongue, and a forked tongue allows them to sense from which direction a smell is coming. Following scent trails based on chemical cues is called tropotaxis. It's unclear whether forked-tongued reptiles can actually follow trails or if this is just a hypothesis. Study the video, what do you think?

Monitor lizards will consume birds, eggs, fish, frogs, rodents, crabs, and snakes. They are also survive on carrion as nature's disposal system.

This video focuses on the science of reptile behavior that supported a master's thesis in zoology. Video is made public for the citation for junior high school, and high school science reports. Also recommended for college and graduate level source citation for zoological biostatistics.

Filmed with the University of Guadalajara for Biological and Agricultural Sciences, the division of Biological and Environmental Science Division, at the department of Botany and Zoology.
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Rex is so amazingly awesome! he just looks like a lot of fun to have around, a big teddy bear, though when he's enjoying a meal keep your distance! 👍👍

JayDogTitan
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Title should have read "Lizard Is Fed Dead Squirrel In Zoo"

CaptainVelveeta
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“the lizard is a natural tracker” proceeds to hand feed it an already dead squirrel -__-

shawnr
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Damn I needed some water after watching that. That shit looked dry as hell!

Cloudkick
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I’ve seen men find women in night clubs just like this in total darkness.

catcall
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Scientists: Dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.
The Reptile Channel lady: hehe yeah... _throws a pile of clothes on Rex to hide him_

nnex
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I love Rex. He's got quite the personality.

pauliether.c.guy.
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At the end Rex is like "wait a minute . . . this thing is already dead! I can just eat it! Thank you humans!"

HoundofOdin
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He is pretty good looking. He should have a little gold necklace.

fastvetteme
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I love lizards. Their beautiful, and they've got Class !

paulfrancis
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Wow, his patterning is just beautiful.

wesley
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Dog troop: *sniff sniff* we smell squirrel
Rex: don't wory I got you guys *eats squirrel*
Dogs: our new king :3

andreabradford
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I know this sounds weird but I think reptiles are the cutest and coolest creatures ever

Potatocrime-
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4:56 the Lizard looked at the man filming and was like "I'd like a cup of water thank you" 😂

cutit
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"Rex smells food ... His favourite scent."
Same.

gaolbreak
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That looks like a huge squirrel! We don't get them that size where I live.

jinggo
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2:33 "This is the part where u scream in pain!" .... "No?"
2:40 "This is the part where u scream in pain!" .... "No?"

GolTubeTV
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Dragon: Imma eat you whole you little flea bag squirrel
Squirrel: yes I hope you choke on THESE NUTS!

LiveLonger
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People don't understand how important decomposers are to the ecosystem...

princejahn
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The squirrel didn't actually die, it's a paid actor.

CannibalLecter