: any of several large Australian monitor lizards (genus Varanus of the family Varanidae)
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Analyzing the footage, the researchers saw several kinds of scavengers visiting the carcasses, including birds, goannas, foxes, and cats.
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Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 11 July 2024
The lizards, known locally as goannas, are an important apex predator and a food source for the Bunuba and other Indigenous people who live in the region.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 July 2024
But the backfilled goanna burrow kept going.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 25 June 2021
On the weekends, a group of us would go out to the bush, hunting for goanna, which is a kind of lizard.
—Brendan Borrell, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2014
An Australian goanna, one of the many predatory species being wiped out by the invasive toads.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2015
But in a fishing village thousands of miles away, where giant goannas scuttled through gumtrees and kookaburras laughed, my siblings were hunting for wild animal scat and leaping into the ocean.
—New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
In Australia, dingo, eagle, and goanna populations are likely to benefit from the ample carrion provided by these fires.
—Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
However, the ongoing mass mortality of kangaroo, koala and other large animals will produce more carcasses than scavengers – eagles, dingoes and a species of reptiles known as goannas – can keep up with.
—Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
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Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 11 July 2024
The lizards, known locally as goannas, are an important apex predator and a food source for the Bunuba and other Indigenous people who live in the region.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 5 July 2024
But the backfilled goanna burrow kept going.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 25 June 2021
On the weekends, a group of us would go out to the bush, hunting for goanna, which is a kind of lizard.
—Brendan Borrell, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2014
An Australian goanna, one of the many predatory species being wiped out by the invasive toads.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2015
But in a fishing village thousands of miles away, where giant goannas scuttled through gumtrees and kookaburras laughed, my siblings were hunting for wild animal scat and leaping into the ocean.
—New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
In Australia, dingo, eagle, and goanna populations are likely to benefit from the ample carrion provided by these fires.
—Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
However, the ongoing mass mortality of kangaroo, koala and other large animals will produce more carcasses than scavengers – eagles, dingoes and a species of reptiles known as goannas – can keep up with.
—Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
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