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=== Food === The meat of monitor lizards is eaten by some tribes in India,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170108/jsp/7days/story_129083.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812181533/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170108/jsp/7days/story_129083.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 12, 2018 |title=Meats We Also Eat |newspaper=The Telegraph India |date=2017-01-08 |access-date=2018-08-12 |language=en }}</ref> Nepal,<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Ghimire HR, Phuyal S, Shah KB |title=Protected species outside the protected areas: People's attitude, threats and conservation of the Yellow Monitor (''Varanus flavescens'') in the Far-western Lowlands of Nepal|journal=Journal for Nature Conservation|volume=22|issue=6|pages=497β503|doi=10.1016/j.jnc.2014.08.003|year=2014|bibcode=2014JNatC..22..497G }}</ref> the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and West Africa as a supplemental meat source.{{citation needed |date=December 2013}} Both meat and eggs are also eaten in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Thailand as a delicacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBq37xAsVc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/XOBq37xAsVc| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|title=Eating a DINOSAUR in Asia!!! RARE Mekong Delta Food you will only find here!|first=Sonny|last=Side|date=5 June 2019|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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