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LIZARDS
WATER
MONITOR
(Varanus
salvator):
 This is the largest
monitor lizards and belongs to the family Varanidae.
They have long, flat bodies and a slender forked tongue.
They can grow to over 6 feet, and are the most colorful with black
and yellow markings. These
voracious feeders are fond of frogs and eggs.
Breeding starts at the beginning of the rainy season when 25-30 eggs
are laid ion mud holes near the river banks, on in tree holes.
CHAMELEON
(Chameleon
zeylanicus):
These tree-dwelling reptiles belong
to the family chameleonidae. They
are unique in their modified toes that have two sets of clasping organs, a
compressed body with a prehensile(organs other than limbs that can be used
to grasp and climb) tail. A
master of camouflage, the chameleon can change its body color in response to
changes in light, heat or emotional state.
It prefers dry country, and is active during the day.
It catches insects with its inordinately long tongue that shoots out
and retracts into the mouth with the prey sticking to its knob like lip.
Mating season beings in October, with 20-30 eggs laid in early
November. And hatchlings emerge
Nine months later.
TORTOISE
& TURTLES:
They belong to the reptilian order
Chelonian, and are easily recognized from all other animals by their
characteristics bony shell. They
have not changed much as they evolved because their fossil ancestors closely
resemble the present form.
MARINE
TURTLES:
 They belong to the reptilian order
Chelonian, with a bony shell, and exclusively aquatic in habit.
Marine turtles spend most of their lives
in the sea and have paddle shaped limbs.
They may be herbivorous ….. carnivorous… promnivorous. five
species of turtle Visit Indians coasts to lay eggs. Mass
nesting is observed in December-January when thousands of female turtles
trawler fishing during nesting results in the thousands of deaths every
year.
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