BIAWAK         ISSN: 1936-296X

Biawak is the official peer-reviewed journal of the IVIG. Released biannually, Biawak publishes original articles and notes which pertain to the biology and captive husbandry of monitor lizards, as well as book reviews, historical accounts, veterinary reports, innovative techniques, bibliographies, commentaries, translations, and digests of current varanid research.

New issues of Biawak are available for download by IVIG members. Full-length articles are also available for individual download from this website. Biawak is currently indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Zoological Record, and Thompson Biology Browser database.

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Testing the Applicability of 15N Isotopic Marker in Skin Tissue to Distinguish Between Captive and Wild Monitor Lizards                                        PDF

STEFAN ZIEGLER, KATINKA GIESEN, MONA VAN SCHINGEN, ANNA RAUHAUS & THOMAS ZIEGLER

Valuable Varanoids: Surveys of Reptile Traders in Japan Reveal Monitor Lizards Without Import Records                                                              PDF

JORDI JANSSEN

Successful Hatching of a Patched Varanus beccarii (Doria, 1874) Egg at the Saint Louis Zoo          PDF

JEFFREY E. DAWSON

Hatha Jodi: An Illegal Trade of Misused Scientific Facts or Blindfolded Myths and Beliefs?          PDF

SHREYA BHATTACHARYA& ANDRÉ KOCH

An Observational Note on Mating Behavior and Male-Male Combat of the Bengal Monitor Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802) in the National Botanical Garden, Dhaka                                  PDF 

MD ARAFAT RAHMAN KHAN, SHAYER MAHMOOD IBNEY ALAM, MD JAYEDUL
ISLAM, SABIT HASAN, MD SALAHUDDIN, MD RASEL MIA, MD JAMAN MIA, NAIM KHANDAKAR & NADIM PARVES

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