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If it tolerates people as an adult it would be great.

Here is a pic of mine, she is very tolerant. I don't pick her up (it spooks her) but if I move in a slow non threatening way I can pet her. I named her Cupcake and she is a little over 4 years old.

have they defined that???

An Ornate Water Monitor?

I must have been asleep under a rock....

SATAN

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No, not a water. I believe that the ornate nile monitor was reclassified as the ornate forest monitor. Changing the latin name fron V. Niloticus ornatus, to V. Ornatus. Let me know what's up if this isn't true.

>>No, not a water. I believe that the ornate nile monitor was reclassified as the ornate forest monitor. Changing the latin name fron V. Niloticus ornatus, to V. Ornatus. Let me know what's up if this isn't true.

You got me! I did not even recognize it was a NILE!!!!! Ornate Niles..... my brain is on water monitors and my girl friend even pointed out the higher nostrils..... Duh! Man..... I look at this stuff all of the time but did not really think about Niles...

Kev
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Long time since I've been on this site...But when I came across your question, it begs to be answered by someone who knows a lot about ornate monitors. In fact I am looking for a female to mate with my "replacement" Nessie. The Nessie on my website below died Feb. 11, 2003, along with 7 other monitor lizards, of an airborne virus that killed each within a week after symptoms appeared. The lone survivor, an ornate monitor left from my first, and only, clutch of eggs that hatched in Nov. 2000, was in a wooden enclosure with a plexiglass slide out door and therefore was not exposed to the same open space environment that the other monitors (ornates, niles, and mangrove) were living in. Let me tell you, for a 2 year period after this, the only time I would open that plexiglass door, was when I fed and watered him. His name was Four Dots until we moved to North Carolina and decided his name would be Nessie 2.
Here are some old pics of Four Dots in that same enclosure mentioned above.
Here is also a familiar pic of our first "Nessie" - and thus I am...

Nessiesmom

Nessie, my Ornate Monitor