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Gray's monitor, Varanus olivaceus is a large (180 cm, >9 kg) monitor lizard known only from lowland dipterocarp forest in the east of Luzon and a few smaller adjacent islands in the Philippines, where it is locally known as the Butaan. It is largely arboreal and extremely shy. It is classed as vulnerable by the IUCN because most of its habitat has been destroyed over the last 60 years. Its diet consists mainly of fruit and snails.
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- Auffenberg, W. 1988. Gray's Monitor Lizard. University of Florida Press, Gainesville
- Bennett, Daniel (2000). "Preliminary survey and status report for Varanus olivaceus on Polillo Island.", in Daniel Bennett: Wildlife of Polillo Island, Philippines. University of Oxford - University of the Philippines at Los Banos Polillo '99 project. Final report. (in English). Glossop: Viper Press, 174 pp. ISBN 0952663252.
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