Well Robert is indeed a very nice person, but a poor varanophile!

You seem to have made good observations with your captives, the shaking prey thing as most monitors do, is simply not an option for croc monitors, they have hollow teeth’s and hollow mandible and upper maxillary, the rest of the head skeleton is very thin, this animal is clearly designed for lightness, a perfect arboreal. Imaging them shaking a rabbit? The poor thin would be toothless and broken jaw. They have a puncturing bite that causes hemorrhagic.
The entire skeleton is very flexible, this surly allows them to hang on to proper sized preys with little to no damages, the bulbous nose could help with small bite of rodents or bats? My captive have never been injured by small to medium live rats, however I did kill adult rats just to be safe (probably not necessary?)
Doreanus also don’t shake there preys, while jobiensis will do both shake and tear them to pieces. Incidentally I often fed full grown rabbits to my crocs, they would tear them to pieces and eat it entirely except part of the intestine, always the same part, funny?
I dough wild crocs would benefit from such a large meal? a steady diet of mice as Frank said is far more efficient, theirs plenty of food for them in nature, no need to gorge themselves and limit movement.

I tried to feed them all kinds of lizards, they ended up basking together as buddies? You know crocs have been trapped in the same tree hollow as prasinus and jobiensis? But never indicus or doreanus, how weird?
I tried but failed to house jobbies and doreanus together, I don’t know why but they just don’t get along, maybe for the same reason crocs are never seen with them to?

Anyway I am going in September and will stay as long as needed to better understand these lizards. Hope I didn’t jinx myself again here!
The last time I said this I ended up in Hospital.

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