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I'm looking for good books on the ecology of African varanids; I love savs, blackthroats and niles, but I just can't keep them right now, so reading about 'em is the next best thing. There's a variety of book on Amazon, but sorting through the crap is difficult. Does anyone know any good books about their natural history? I'll take any good books about monitors, but would love some about the African ones. I've got Dennis Kings book "Monitors: The Biology of Varanid Lizards" and despite the dry writing style, rather enjoyed it. I'd love Bennets book but the only used one I could find they wanted 400 bucks for it...ouch!

I'm not terribly interested in care guides--like I said, I can't keep them here--but I'd love to read about 'em in the wild

http://varanidae.org/

Biawak is a great source of information.

Cheers
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Steve

Monitor Lizards, Natural History, Captive Care & Breeding by Bernd Eidenmuller. Great book,I bought my copy at Exotic Pets in Las Vegas on line.
Joe

on amazon, the title's in german (or maybe dutch); is the book in English? I'm afraid I'm monolingual...if so, I'll pick it up

If you are talking about the book I mentioned, it is in English
Joe

You can probably find it on Kingsnake classified.
Joe

Amazon had a picture of a different book up on that books page Something in german about anacondas. WIll order it payday.

>>Amazon had a picture of a different book up on that books page Something in german about anacondas. WIll order it payday.

There are actually two different books by this author. Not sure which one the gang is suggesting here, but there are two in our book store....

Terralog: Varanoid Lizards: Monitor Lizards

THis is the one that comes up with the german anaconda cover. Monitor Lizards: Natural History, Captive care and Breeding
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