Show lizards feat feast royally on eggs of crocodile I 1 have sometimes watched monitors or african water lizards at their work ot of robbing crocodile nests of their epes C it S pitman writes in asia magazine the antics of 0 these prehistoric looking creatures which are usually about four feet long are most entertain in ing on more than one occasion when I 1 have been lying in concealment observing tile the behavior of the guardian females on the breeding grounds I 1 have seen a monitor deliberately libera tely provoke a crocodile until it rushes off in pursuit into the water in the meantime the monitors mate arrives on the scene excavates the nest with great haste hasta and begins gobbling up the eggs soon it Is joined by no 1 which had only taken to the water as a ruse they usually succeed in disposing of the greater portion 0 of the eggs before the return of the tha rightful owner even when forced to withdraw they will decamp each with an egg in its mouth month |