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Jul. 2013 - Dragons! - Ackies Dwarf Monitor

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Dragons!, is an indoor facility home to the zoo's large collection of monitor lizards. Species include the smallest to the largest monitors on the planet. The last habitat of the complex is home to a large, male Komodo Dragon, who has access to both indoor and outdoor yards.
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Dragons!, is an indoor facility home to the zoo\'s large collection of monitor lizards. Species include the smallest to the largest monitors on the planet. The last habitat of the complex is home to a large, male Komodo Dragon, who has access to both indoor and outdoor yards.
 
Maguari
'Ackie' is a pet-trade nickname for Varanus acanthurus. I much prefer to call it by its standard name, Spiny-tailed Monitor.

Incidentally, this particular variant ('Ackies Dwarf Monitor', with the 's') is new to me - but is certainly used on Cincinnati's website (and is given as a synonym on Wikipedia, but with the same Cincinnati page as reference). Very odd choice (not least because 'Ackies' is meaningless!).
 
Chlidonias
Maguari said:
'Ackie' is a pet-trade nickname for Varanus acanthurus. I much prefer to call it by its standard name, Spiny-tailed Monitor.

Incidentally, this particular variant ('Ackies Dwarf Monitor', with the 's') is new to me - but is certainly used on Cincinnati's website (and is given as a synonym on Wikipedia, but with the same Cincinnati page as reference). Very odd choice (not least because 'Ackies' is meaningless!).
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meaningless indeed! It makes it sound like it was named after someone by the name of Ackie!

The silly name "ackie" of course derives from the first two letters of the specific name acanthurus
 
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Moebelle said:
Dragons!, is an indoor facility home to the zoo\'s large collection of monitor lizards. Species include the smallest to the largest monitors on the planet. The last habitat of the complex is home to a large, male Komodo Dragon, who has access to both indoor and outdoor yards.
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I'm confused? how is Varanus acanthurus the smallest monitor? I think Varanus brevicauda would have an issue with that, as would other odatria. I dislike how they just have them down as Varanus acanthurus (red ackies, if you want to refer to them like americans and some europeans do). Also, acanthurus in Oz range in size, colour, pattern, body-structure and tail-structure depending on location. Some are smaller than the 18"-24" they are said to max out at (in captivity, due to poor husbandry and excessive breeding with limited animals) and some are larger, pushing 30". So the Zoos claim of smallest on the planet is wrong.
 
Moebelle
Gulo gulo said:
I'm confused? how is Varanus acanthurus the smallest monitor? I think Varanus brevicauda would have an issue with that, as would other odatria. I dislike how they just have them down as Varanus acanthurus (red ackies, if you want to refer to them like americans and some europeans do). Also, acanthurus in Oz range in size, colour, pattern, body-structure and tail-structure depending on location. Some are smaller than the 18"-24" they are said to max out at (in captivity, due to poor husbandry and excessive breeding with limited animals) and some are larger, pushing 30". So the Zoos claim of smallest on the planet is wrong.
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I researched it back then and sources have told me that the Ackies is the smallest. Now I just very recently found that the short-tailed monitor is. The zoo does not claim it is the smallest species by the way.
 
Moebelle
Gulo gulo said:
But they do. From their website: "Dragons!, Cincinnati Zoo's newest exhibit, features the Largest, Longest, Smallest and Most Colorful Monitor Lizards."
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So that's where I got that from... This doesn't change anything, but that's not technically from their main website.;)
 

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