REPTILE - BLACK HEAD MONITOR

The black-headed monitor or black-tailed monitor (Varanus tristis) is a relatively small species of monitor lizard's native to Australia. It is occasionally also called the mournful monitor, freckled monitor (Varanus tristis orientalis) or the racehorse monitor, a name it shares with the Gould's monitor due to their exceptional speed. It is placed in the subgenus Odatria.