Well Heck, just about object is smarter than a bearded dragon...I think my pet rock can outsmart one....hahahah.



Personally, in my experience, I would rank the african monitors(except for griseus- have never kept or interracted with griseus-don't know how 'smart' they are) on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum of varanids, and would place V. varius, V. komodoensis, and V. salvadorii up at the top of the list.

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• Monitor Lizard Intelligence - Aerosmith, Mon Jan 24 00:45:30 2005
• RE: Monitor Lizard Intelligence - lwcamp, Mon Jan 24 09:34:08 2005
• RE: Monitor Lizard Intelligence - varanidfan, Mon Jan 24 10:27:48 2005
• RE: Monitor Lizard Intelligence - treemonitors_com, Mon Jan 24 11:48:40 2005
• So I was a tad bit off....here's an abstract of the study - treemonitors_com, Mon Jan 24 14:19:18 2005
• RE: So I was a tad bit off....here's an abstract of the study - Aerosmith, Mon Jan 24 19:09:39 2005
• RE: So I was a tad bit off....here's an abstract of the study - treemonitors_com, Tue Jan 25 11:33:41 2005
• Though I love beardies, I'd have to agree with you..... - -ryan-, Tue Jan 25 20:28:52 2005
• LOL - Aerosmith, Thu Jan 27 00:31:50 2005
• I remember a study quoted by Dennis King on V. Albigularis.. - SHvar, Tue Jan 25 00:06:11 2005
• look at my previous post for an abstract.... np - treemonitors_com, Tue Jan 25 01:16:25 2005