"Lizards without ears spend most of their time hiding under plants and rocks along the rocky riverbank. According to an article published in 2013 in Herpetological Review, they come out at night to search for food on land and in water. Their scales can trap dirt and provide them with camouflage when they are outside."

"It is estimated that they use their tails as anchors, wrapping them around rocks and roots to avoid being swept away by floods. Their mating process occurs in the water, and the sessions can last for hours. According to Animal Diversity Web, the unusual appearance of earless monitor lizards led scientists to believe they were a missing link between snakes and lizards, but this has since been disproven."