Grays Monitor Lizard

Pp. xi, 419, frontispiece photo of the author, numerous text-figures (mostly line-drawings and graphs). Publisher's original gray textured cloth, lettered in dark green on the spine, pictorial dust jacket lettered in green, lg 8vo. This volume is based on a 22-month study of the ecology and behavior of Varanus grayi on two Philippine Islands. This monitor subsists on a highly specialized diet, fruit and molluscs, and its physiology is uniquely specialized to this diet. The volume presents the only field study of only regularly frugivorous lizard species in the world. No ownership marks and no signs of use.