This volume is dedicated to Monitors originate in Asia, Africa, Australia, and Indonesia, and come in many varieties, including the world's largest and some of its smallest lizards. Here is advice on caging and care of its various kinds, including the Savanna Monitor, the White-Throated Monitor, Blue-Tailed, Ridge-Tailed, and many others.

Also featured is a general introduction to this reptilian family, a checklist of monitors found around the world, a glossary, and a bibliography.

Contents
Preface
Understanding Your Monitor or Tegu
Choosing a Monitor or Tequ
Captive-Raised versus Wild-Collected
Caging
Cage Size
Cage Furniture
HOW-TO: Make a Quasi-Natural Outdoor Cage
Cage/Terrarium Cleanliness
Lighting and Heating
Natural Sunlight
More Heating Hints
Feeding and Watering Techniques
The Menu
Feeding
Insects: Catching Your Own
Insects: Purchasing or Raising
Mice and Rats; To Purchase or Breed
Vitamin/Mineral Supplements
Watering and Hydration
Techniques
Handling
HOW-TO: Handle Your Monitor or Tegu
Health
Diet-Related Health Problems
Mechanical Injury
Pathogens and Parasites
Respiratory Disorders
Breeding
HOW-TO: Making Your Own Incubator
Taxonomy—A Far from Final Word on Names
Photography
Basic Equipment Needs
Introduction to the Monitors
The Lizard Family Varanidae
Some Pet Store Favorites
African Monitors
Asian/Indonesian Monitors
Australian Monitors
The Komodo Dragon
The World’s Largest Lizard
The Earless Monitor
Family Lanthanotidae
A Brief Checklist of Eagerly Sought, but Hard-to-Acquire Monitors
Introduction to the Teiids
Three Teiid Genera
The Dwarf Tegu and Monitor Tequ
Callopistes
The Caiman Lizards, Dracaena sp.
Tegus. Tupinambis sp.
Useful Addresses and Literature
Glossary

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