Name: Rio
Species: Argentinian tegu
Found: Grasslands, S. America
Age: 5 years
Gender: Unknown
Length: 1.2 metres
Favourite food: Dead chicks
Extreme feature: produces some of the most unpleasant poos in the animal kingdom. Fermented fuit mixed with fermented rodents - yuk!
Rio is an Argentinian tegu. Although she looks like a baby Komodo dragon, and behaves a lot like a monitor lizard, tegus are from South America and are only distantly-related to the monitors.
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