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NYC - Bronx - Bronx Zoo: World of Reptiles - Green Tree Monitor
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The Green Tree Monitor (Varanus prasinus), also called the emerald tree monitor, is a small to medium sized arboreal monitor lizard, ranging up to 30 inches. It is well known for its unusual coloration, spanning a myriad of shades from green to turquoise, topped with dark, transverse dorsal banding. It is the only known monitor lizard species to be omnivorous, in that it feeds on berries and other fruit, in addition to insects, frogs, salamanders, snails, and other small animal fare common to its tropical climate. Emerald tree monitors can be found in New Guinea, as well as several adjacent islands, and on a few islands within the Torres Strait, the body of water separating eastern New Guinea and northern Queensland, Australia. A prehensile tail and special scales on its feet are adaptations for life in the trees. Like a snake, it uses its long tongue to sense its surroundings.

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The Bronx Zoo, located within the Bronx Park, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising 265 acres of parklands and naturalistic habitats and home to over 4,000 animals. Focused on conservation, it opened on November 8, 1899, with 22 exhibits, 843 animals. The zoo's origins date back to 1895, with the establishment of the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), renamed Wild Conservation Society (WCS) in 1993. Only the outer structure of the World of Reptiles remains much as it was in 1899. With the 1941 opening of African Plains, the Bronx Zoo was one of the first U.S. zoos to move away from cages and exhibit animals in naturalistic habitats.

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