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Someone was asking me about why tegus are so fat, I will try to expain it here.
As for the size of tegus, I think people confuse them with monitors too often. Tegus are much larger built, the jowls are always larger in the males and are 100% normal, however, not found as large in the Colombian tegus.
Take a greyhound, should a St. Bernard look like a Grey hound? Or even a pit viper, they should not be as thin as a ribbon snake. No they are two different animals, as with the tegus, they are heavier built than any of the monitor species.
They are also in no way related to monitors at all, they are in a totally different family; they are related to whiptails and racerunners. I hope this helps in understanding them better.
As for the size of tegus, I think people confuse them with monitors too often. Tegus are much larger built, the jowls are always larger in the males and are 100% normal, however, not found as large in the Colombian tegus.
Take a greyhound, should a St. Bernard look like a Grey hound? Or even a pit viper, they should not be as thin as a ribbon snake. No they are two different animals, as with the tegus, they are heavier built than any of the monitor species.
They are also in no way related to monitors at all, they are in a totally different family; they are related to whiptails and racerunners. I hope this helps in understanding them better.