Lace Monitor at Gundaroo, NSW
Identification history
| Varanus varius | 12 Jan 2022 | DonFletcher | ||
| Varanus varius | 12 Jan 2022 | SwalaPark |
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User's notes
Monitor excavating a hole in a white ants nest that was the same nest a monitor was attracted to last year.
1 comment
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
15 Jan 2022
Thanks for the postings. The Goannas of our region need white ant mounds to nest in. The Gundaroo area seems to support an important remnant population and looking after this Goanna means looking after the white ant mounds.
Location information
- Places Gundaroo, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 12 Jan 2022 05:51 PM Recorded on
- SwalaPark Recorded by
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Reptiles and Frogs Monitors & Geckos
Additional information
- Nest building Breeding behaviour
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Varanus varius Scientific name
- Lace Monitor Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 346 images trained Machine learning
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