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Say a dead larger animal, something it would not be able to eat whole. Like a komodo, would species like niles, waters, blackthroats, etc., dive into a rotting carcass? Just wondering if anyone has experienced there monitors doing this, or even allowed them a chance at it.

Im sure they would eat some of it. Some are better equipped to eat these things, others are not. Smaller dead animals they wont hesitate to eat.

I could see a nile, water, argus maybe diving in with there razor like teeth, being able to sever flesh. I would have a much harder time thinking a sav or a bt species would be so equipped.

I read a news clip about a man who was found dead in his apartment. The large niles he had been keeping were reported to have been feeding on his carcass for a week.

I know the parentes will feast on dead kangaroo.

i didn't get a chance to read that but i heard about it. is their a link for the article?

Yeah, It happened in Maryland I believe. Would be nice to dig up that article.

>>Yeah, It happened in Maryland I believe. Would be nice to dig up that article.

I believe this is the story you are referring to. I could not find you all the actual AP story.
Monitor Lizards eat owner.

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A nile does not have razor sharp teeth, they have blunt teeth such as all African species.
Niles, Albigs, will take advantage of the food source but may not be so easy to cut the flesh as some other species. In the past a few people have died and been chewed upon by their monitors, one in NJ was all nile monitors, one was elsewhere involved a few Asian species, one was 3 illegal komodos, this guy I dont know if the fall killed him or the lizards did.

I have seen both Bengal Monitors and Water Monitors scavenging roadkill in Sri Lanka. One of the more impressive sights was 7-9 Bengals eating a long dead Chital Deer beside the road in Wilpattu, a large wildlife reserve in Sri Lanka.....TC

Thats cool man, must have been a site. I was almost thinking of dumping a rabbit or similar sized animal in my blackthroats cage, just to see how she would react.

Hey Tom,

I hope all is well with you guys down there... I always love your posts because you deliver the real deal- experience. I have had croc monitors shred and pull frozen thawed rabbits into mush... what they cannot eat immediately is returned to over and over even well past the fresh state. Best to you - Mike

Interesting...

Still wondering if my blackthroat will do the same, and I will find out when I get the chance.

OK, I'm basically a know nothin', but monitors are opertunists after all. Why would they not eat carrion?

Quig