If you could choose a single reptile, which one would be it?

We allready have this thread for birds, i like it and wanna hear about your reptile choices too.
My personal pick is the crocodile or papua monitor, a beautifull aboreal monitor from neuginea.
The main reasons are that an aboreal monitor from oceania would check multiple boxes and be quite unique, + the zoo in my hometown has one, the charismatic "Urmel"
I love Urmel, hes the best, about as old as me and i want to have his species in my zoo too
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I should choose my study species, but it’s visually pretty boring and small. For a habitat animal, the coolest is marine iguana but it’s not really a zoo animal whereas alligator is pretty ubiquitous in US zoos. For exhibit it’s hard to go past frilled lizard but I thin I’d probably go leopard chameleon.
 
While I would love to see the iguanas be made into actual habitat animals I don't expect such a change would happen. In terms of actual new species for the game, rather than a repurposed exhibit animal, the American alligator is probably my top choice. Would love to be able to make an enclosure like the one below at Le Pal in France - a more temperate-tolerant reptile would be brilliant. It would also be important for them to be more tolerant of company than the current crocodilian species - the Le Pal enclosure has over twenty alligators in it and I'm sure there are enclosures elsewhere (particularly those crocodilian parks in the southern USA) with even more.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uLYd2pdko
 
Even though those Choices are all more awesome and we already have so many smaller Snakes, it might be interesting to see the Yellow-bellied sea snake in the Game (with yellow Color Mutation and a new Marine Exhibit Type that is completely filled with Saltwater)
Edit: OK, this Suggestion was a Fail. They seem to never live long in Captivity. But maybe we could get another kind of Sea Snake if this one is too unrealistic
 
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I'll second the retic and green tree pythons above, they would be great.

But if I had to choose one reptile, probably the radiated tortoise. We don't have enough exhibit turtles; I think the diamondback terrapin is the only one? Plus more desert species is always welcome.
 
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