Here is some information about monitor lizards. They are found in Africa, Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia. One species, the Pacific or Indian monitor, was brought by natives to the Polynesian Islands as a source of food. Monitors range in size. To eat, lizards greatly increase the size of their mouth cavity by spreading the tongue and dropping the lower jaw.
Monitors are daytime predators, feeding on almost any animal of any size.
All monitors are egg-layers, and the Nile monitor, lays its eggs in termite mounds, which soften during the rainy season, and provide warmth. The earless monitor is a large-scaled, lizard native to Borneo and related to the true monitors. Connection to Holes Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility in Texas, was infested with yellow-spotted lizards. These were lizards that had really faint, yellow spots on their backs. Stanley had an encounter with some yellow-spotted lizards when he fell into a hole in which a lot of them lived.