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Hello TheWiseBen! Here is a link to a document with lots of ideas to enrich any reptile's life. I personally like to use the scent trail ones the most to promote foraging. http://www.enrichment.org/MiniWebs/Australasia/workshop01.pdf
That is very interesting that there may be more undescribed tegu species out there. I always find it cool when old species are reevaluated and found likely to be multiple distinct species. I recently read a paper about Macrochelys temminckii in the the South East U.S. actually being three...
I never knew that choosing of names was such a political affair. It's also pretty interesting to see what people thought were the relationships between animals way back when. Seems like the common idea was that tegu were some type of monitor, even the new 'new' genus Salvator instantly reminded...
Thank you for the response Roadkill. It does seem like it can be pretty complicated. I did not know about the grandfather clause. Do you happen to have a link to the recent paper?
Hey, partially off topic but I have not heard of using the genus Salvator and have always used Tupinambis myself. Is this a recent change in nomenclature?