Spencer's goanna find, including highly venomous snakes, small mammals, small lizards, eggs, and carrion (dead animals), and is able to digest anything it eats. When threatened, "V. spenceri" hisses loudly, distends its throat and whips its aggressor with its muscular tail. "Varanus spenceri" lives in black soil plains with no trees; so Spencer's goanna is the only Australian monitor that does not readily climb although juvenile animals will climb given the opportunity. Clutch size of Spencer's monitor generally ranges between 11 and 30 eggs. "Varanus ingrami" , is an invalid name (a junior synonym) for this species. Spencer's goanna Spencer's goanna or
Dirty Creature Dirty Creature "Dirty Creature is a single from New Zealand art rock group Split Enz's seventh album "Time and Tide". It was written by Tim Finn, Nigel Griggs and Neil Finn and released as the forthcoming album's lead single in March 1982. Tim Finn had been suffering from panic attacks at the time, and co-wrote the song as a relief for his condition. The song entered the New Zealand top 40 chart at 7 on 25 April 1982 and spent 18 weeks in the charts, peaking at 3. In Australia, it debuted at 26 and peaked at 6 in its