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Hello, I was wonndering if any one had any thoughts about the tail lenths compared to the svl of these lizards. I know they range from 2times the svl to 2.7 times the svl. I read that this could do to different localities. Lizards in one area having longer tails than others from different areas. Also if this is true then could breeding two monitors from different locals be the cause of infertile eggs. This does not sem to be the case with snakes. I' just curios of what other people think because I have two crocs and one is alot smaller than the other (bulk wise) but they are both the same lenght. Thanks for your thoughts.

Thinking in terms as an exact is only going to make you stumble.
Croc monitors like many other living creatures have no exacts they have ranges or degrees of variation. I would not look to hard into the exact measurments of tail to determin anything.

Looking at color, patterns, and a bit into the shape of the animal will better tell you if they are of different locality.

As for your one croc being smaller then the other, is it perhaps a male and female? or one being dominated by the larger animal? And again not every croc monitor same locality or not will be the same size, growth rate, etc. nature has allowed for diversity.

I have not crossed two different locals of croc monitor so not sure if it can be done. Perhaps someone who has can answer that. I however do not see why it couldn't be done.

Thanks for your reply. I agree that they are not "exact" animals thats part of the allure I guess. Any way thanks for your response.

If they are both croc monitors and there is not so much differance that they can not actually mate then there is no reason that a diffrant locality would have cause such a genetic shift in them that they would not be able to produce fertile eggs. There are quite a few other reasons I might look into befor I would think that animals of the same speices can't make fertile eggs befor I would think it was a locality thing. As if they were that differant they would prob get differant Species designation and even then they could prob still cross breed as long as is same family well within limits.

This made sense to me when I wrote it honest
Shawn