Is it legal to feed 'unwanted' or stray kittens to your Nile Monitor?

1. What can Nile monitors eat?
2. Can you tame a Nile monitor?
3. Can Nile monitors eat fruit?
4. What can I feed my baby Nile monitor?
5. Are monitor lizards pets?
6. Do monitor lizards eat cats?
7. Do monitor lizards drink water?
8. Are monitor lizards poisonous?
9. Are Nile monitor invasive species?
10. What do Nile monitors look like?
11. Are monitor lizards exotic?

What can Nile monitors eat?

Their broad diet includes crabs, crayfish, mussels, snails, slugs, termites, caterpillars, beetles, spiders, grasshoppers and crickets, fish, frogs, toads, lizards, turtles, snakes, young crocodiles, and other reptiles, birds and their eggs, and small mammals.

Can you tame a Nile monitor?

These reptiles are strong, can be aggressive, and are large. From the Little Book of Monitor Lizards in 1995: "There are few of these lizards less suited to life in captivity than the Nile monitor. ... Most Nile monitors resist attempts to tame them, keeping their aggressive personalities through adulthood.

Can Nile monitors eat fruit?

While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds, insects, and small mammals, some also eat fruit and vegetation, depending on where they live.

What can I feed my baby Nile monitor?

Nile monitors are carnivorous. They feed on a diet consisting of crickets, mealworms and rodents. Hatchlings should be fed a diet of insects that are coated and fed vitamin and mineral supplements. Young monitors should be offered food daily.

Are monitor lizards pets?

Although monitor lizards are sometimes kept as pets, they are still wild animals and should be treated as such. However, for the right person, monitor lizards can make ideal pets.

Do monitor lizards eat cats?

Nile monitors have been known to eat cats as well as other small mammals, burrowing owls, fish and frogs, according to biologist Jenny Ketterlin Eckles of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Do monitor lizards drink water?

Scientists have always suspected that lizards absorb water much like their amphibious neighbors. However, unlike an amphibian's moist skin, dry lizard skin is designed to both keep water in and out. ... These tubes funnel water across the body and into the corners of the lizard's mouth, where it is then swallowed.

Are monitor lizards poisonous?

And while the monitor lizards has much better developed glands and are more venomous, they are not dangerous to humans either." "If you were a five or 10 gram mouse it would be different, but the venom from a monitor lizard is not going to kill a human being."

Are Nile monitor invasive species?

The Nile Monitor is one of the more problematic invasive reptiles present in Florida these days. ... Like most invasive species, the Nile Monitors probably became established because of pet releases or escapes from captivity.

What do Nile monitors look like?

The Nile monitor is a large lizard that can grow to more than 5 feet long. Its body is gray-brown and marked with bands of lighter-colored spots with speckles between them. On the tail, these bands of spots appear as solid bands. The head is marked with light-colored, V-shaped marks.

Are monitor lizards exotic?

These lizards are readily found in Africa and Asia as well as islands in Oceania. They can now be found in parts of the Americas, but they are considered an invasive species due to their non-native status. Monitor lizards in the Americas originated from the exotic pet trade.