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The savannah monitor (or Bosc's monitor) is a medium-sized monitor lizard from Africa. Its scientific name is Varanus exanthematicus.
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Its range extends throughout sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal east to Sudan and south almost to the Congo River and Great Rift Valley.[1] It is a ground-dwelling species which shelters in burrows, although it is sometimes found in bushes or low trees.[2]
Information about the diet of Savannah monitors in the wild has been recorded in Senegal [3] and Ghana.[1][4] It feeds almost exclusively on arthropods and molluscs.
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