Those animals look to be two separate animals, when you closely look at the patterning. Especially the fleckling on the arms and neck area. I understand that patterning does change with age, but in the pictures shown, it appears that melanin vanished in some areas, and developed in other areas, which is not something that typically does not occur in varanid ontogeny. There is typically either an increase in melanin with age(V. boehmei), or a decrease in melanin with age(V. melinus). Developmentally speaking, you really don't see a combination of both processes occurring at the same time as an individual ages.



Again, I can be mistaken, but I think that those are two separate animals. If you look closely, you'll probably agree.

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• Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - jobi, Sat Mar 26 15:50:14 2005
• RE: This is how it should look! - jobi, Sat Mar 26 16:07:22 2005
• Those are two different animals... - Lucien, Sun Mar 27 02:06:26 2005
• RE: This is how it should look! - jobi, Sun Mar 27 02:59:13 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - killerpt, Sat Mar 26 16:40:55 2005
• RE: looks to still be there - JPsShadow, Sat Mar 26 18:19:14 2005
• RE: looks to still be there - jobi, Sat Mar 26 18:49:01 2005
• RE: looks to still be there - crazyassnilemoni, Sun Mar 27 00:53:15 2005
• RE: yes heat works well - JPsShadow, Sun Mar 27 21:14:04 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - treemonitors_com, Sat Mar 26 18:33:41 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - jobi, Sat Mar 26 18:52:38 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - treemonitors_com, Sat Mar 26 19:01:28 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - FR, Sat Mar 26 22:29:14 2005
• RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - jobi, Tue Mar 29 11:39:24 2005