All monitors have "venom" in their saliva?

[Skiploder]

Funny you should ask that. One of the guides had dress shoes on. Something you might wear to a wedding.

The national shoe of Indonesia is the Flip flop though. Everyone including nurses in hospitals wear them. BG hates the flip flop. It's hot 24/7 365 though so BG understands.

Funny you should mention that - the last wedding I went to I wore flip flops.

[Big Gunns]

Funny you should mention that - the last wedding I went to I wore flip flops.

Move to Indo...you'd fit right in.

[Hulihzack]

Zack:

Komodos were widely thought to kill prey by septicemia - bacterial infections of the blood - that was proven to be untrue.

The problem with that theory is that the death of large prey occured too quickly to be attributable to systemic bacterial poisoning. It's one of those urban legend things - sort of. While they have a mouth full of many strains of nasty bacteria, that's not what was causing rapid swelling and blood pressure/clotting changes.

Thanks for clearing that up, clearly as far as I knew was not very far.

Venom in some lizards including varanids is really old news, I'm surprised this still comes up on message boards (seemingly always with some guy answering "no it's bacteria"). 2002 called, it wants its misinformation back.

Just because it was discovered several years ago does not mean it is common knowledge.

[allergenic]

Just because it was discovered several years ago does not mean it is common knowledge.

Just because you didn't know it, does not mean it's obscure?

[Hulihzack]

Just because you didn't know it, does not mean it's obscure?

I don't believe I was speaking for just myself.

[CoolioTiffany]

Just because you didn't know it, does not mean it's obscure?

Don't start up a riot on my thread..
I know how you can get so leave that on a down low.

[WingedWolfPsion]

It's now known that there are dozens of venomous lizards. The announcement of true venom in Komodos led people to look closer, and now they're finding it in other monitors (probably all of them), bearded dragons and other agamids, and in iguanids too.

According to Fry, "the “venom clade” includes the iguanians (of which chameleons are a subset), the anguids (legless and alligator lizards), and the monitors."