Highly coveted in the pet trade, the Indonesian blue monitor tree lizard will receive protection from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services under its Endangered Species Act. The agency used its ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the blue tree monitor lizard as endangered in 2017, finding that the animals face a very high risk of extinction in the wild. The species is ...
Their role in the food-web isn’t well researched, but bony fish, dolphins and whales have been observed to eat them. “They’re understood to be harmless, but it’s still probably a good idea to restrain ...