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Gray's Monitor
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Reptilia;
Order:	Squamata;
Family:	Varanidae;
Genus:	Varanus;
Species:	V. olivaceus;
Binomial name
	Varanus olivaceus;

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 such as Polillo Island, 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 almost entirely of fruit, especially Pandanus, and snails.

[edit] Bibliography

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 (in English). Wildlife of Polillo Island, Philippines. University of Oxford - University of the Philippines at Los Banos Polillo '99 project. Final report.. Glossop: Viper Press. pp. 174 pp. ISBN 0952663252.

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