Cheetah of the entire reptile reptile,infact the fastest reptile

Bradyz4 The best, with Marty Stauffer coming in second. Nature, and Wild America were my favorite shows many moons ago😏

@V A why?

Been watching him for years, no homo

Emus that outran machine-guns during the emu war: Am I a jock to you ?

On youtube we comment on your comment

@@christosgiannopoulos828 a jock?... Yes

Go Anna Go!

nicely said. while i love komodos and waters, there's just something about the perentie that has a great appeal. a very unique animal indeed

Wang Ruoxu they are only slow and clumsy when they are kept in enclosures that are to small and not given enough exercise. Unlike other reptiles monitor lizards require plenty of exercise in order to maintain healthy body proportions, fitness and mobility, also a lot of captive monitors are also way over fed! Just watch a video of a Komodo running down a deer and you will see just how quick a wild Komodo can sprint over a short distance! Having said this you are correct perenties do have a look of sleekness and athletism that is unmatched by other large monitors.

Water Monitors are not slow...

@@The_Superpack not that much slow but still slow

It's not sad. It's hungry.

Sandy Bad-Molars Gonzalez then why did you say people?

Yes, and they also deserve to be run down, killed and devoured.

Sandy Bad-Molars Gonzalez i disliked bc I’m a rabbit

A 9 year old comment, holy crap.

Don't Insult Rabbits!😡🐰🐇

+Cuda FX Although he is close, it's a clever camera angle that makes him look far closer than he actually is. If he was within 2 meters of him (as it appears in the video) the monitor would most likely of whipped him with his tail.

It could have been used to humans. Animal's sometimes get too used to human presence.

Smaug's head shape in the P.J. movie was highly based on monitors

Have you ever seen a “raptor” ?

@@jimcrawford5039 only in movies and documentaries lol

Komodo dragons used to live in Australia. We're trying to get them reintroduced.

I saw one in front of my house and I almost shit my pants, didn’t know wtf it was. I just wanted to go to woollies to buy ice cream and boom it was there.

@@giancarlofrancese1441 🤣

Not even 1% interested in the Wongatha people who capture & torture & kill & eat these beautifully monitor lizards . White man need stop revering & honouring the bullshit of these savages.

For reptiles you mean

How smart they can get?

KAMIKAZE 619 theres a monitor lizard documentary you can find on youtube if you are interested, they talk about their intelligence throughout, the perentie was recorded to be smart enough to memorize on pinpoint their hunting territory, they can remember the best trails and the best runways as well, truly intelligent!

@Jason Berryman if not smarter than dogs, and believe it or not, more trainable (depending on the monitor) than dogs because they're more food motivated. You can teach a juvie monitor a neat trick in a few minutes with just food (including hand and vocal commands which could take a few days to a week), whilst a puppy ranging from 5 weeks, to 6 months old can take a long time to train. I know from experiences and watching some vids, its fascinating.

@@kamikaze6198 they are smart , I seen one yesterday with a newspaper doing crosswords

Yes

yup

yeah, I came for the komodos

yup me

Yep

SealAngel probably because you don't live in the outback mate

just saw your comment from 9 years ago, I don’t know you or where you are now, but I hope you are well

I already said you can't find them outside Australia, so I'm aware of that. I have actually looked into obtaining a perentie monitor, and as you said, they just aren't available. A few zoos have them, and that's it.

I get what you mean. I wish I had a few in my property if I lived in Australia to get red if and venomous snakes. But than again 8 foot perenties would be pretty scary to see about as well. But they are gorgeous with what can only be aborigine artwork-patterned skin

A Komodo is a monitor

Wrong "fact" and where did you get that info from, the tabloid website ?? According to wikipedia, Mososaurs evolved from an ancient squamatid that most of the time dwells around waters. It looks similar to the monitor but that's a common ancestor meaning 2 or more future descendants evolved from one basal organism. So, considering the monitors CLOSELY RELATED to the mososaur rather than being an ancestor, the varanids and mososaurs both spread apart due to evolution.

So rats sounds pretty smart then?

Yes, rats are extremely clever!

Monitors are much smarter than rats. In fact, they are even smarter than many primates.

Right? Was there a piece of glass or something inbetween?

I once woke up while out on a solo camping trip and found a dead log had collapsed my tent and was on top of me - in those days I was a VERY heavy sleeper and could sleep through a bomb. I vaguely shifted under the weight, only to notice the 'log' moving - I woke up like a shot and bolted to the other side of my tent! Thinking someone was screwing with me I grabbed my hunting knife and jumped out, ready to take on all comers, and came face to face with a huge goanna that had decided to lie on top of me for my body heat! It took off like a bat out of hell, which was just as well, as it was huge! I stayed in that spot for a couple of days due to rain, and every morning I'd wake up, look out through the mesh of my tent, and there would be the goanna, looking in at me. :) As for taking a piss, I once did the same all over a bush, and half way through a brown snake snuck out from where I'd been pissing all over it, and made its was past my right leg - I just froze until it had gone past me.