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  2. Monitor lizard - Wikipedia

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    Most monitor lizards are almost entirely carnivorous, [14] consuming prey as varied as insects, crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Most species feed on invertebrates as juveniles and shift to feeding on vertebrates as adults.

  3. Nile monitor - Wikipedia

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    Nile monitors feed on a wide variety of prey items, including fish, frogs and toads (even poisonous ones of the genera Breviceps and Sclerophrys), small reptiles (such as turtles, snakes, lizards, and young crocodiles), birds, rodents, other small mammals (up to domestic cats and young antelopes ), eggs (including those of crocodiles, agamids ...

  4. Desert monitor - Wikipedia

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    The desert monitor (Varanus griseus) is a species of monitor lizard of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia. The desert monitor is carnivorous , feeding on a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates.

  5. Varanus (Varanus) - Wikipedia

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    However, not all agree that these can be called venom glands, especially since the effect of them are too mild for prey to most lizard and especially true monitors, who often hunt prey that are simply too large to rely on venom for a kill. [18] True monitors live in Australia alongside the much smaller and more diverse dwarf monitors.

  6. Savannah monitor - Wikipedia

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    The savannah monitor is the most common monitor lizard species available in the pet trade, accounting for almost half (48.0552%) of the entire international trade in live monitor lizards. [ 17 ] Despite its prevalence in global pet trade, successful captive reproduction is very rare, and a high mortality rate is associated with the species.

  7. Gray's monitor - Wikipedia

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    The Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus) is a large (180 cm, >9 kg) monitor lizard known only from lowland dipterocarp forest in southern Luzon, Catanduanes, and Polillo Island, all islands in the Philippines. [1] It is also known as Gray's monitor lizard, butaan, and ornate monitor. [3] It belongs to the subgenus Philippinosaurus. [4]

  8. Monitor lizard terrifies tourists after sneaking into ... - AOL

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    Tourists on safari are warned about lions and leopards, but maybe they should be cautioned about giant lizards. A group of tourists was camped out at the Skukuza camp site in South Africa's Kruger ...

  9. Varanus (Polydaedalus) - Wikipedia

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    The rock monitor, being large and able to swallow large prey, often seek chances to eat turtles, which contributes most of its vertebrate food. [4] African monitors thrive throughout the African continent. Nile monitors are the most populous lizards in Africa, with over 4 million widely distributed across Sub-Sahara in all habitats but deserts ...