While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds and small mammals, some also eat fruit and vegetation depending on where they live.
While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, three arboreal species, "Varanus bitatawa", "Varanus mabitang", and "Varanus olivaceus", are primarily frugivores. Some species of monitor lizard also eat fruit and vegetation depending on where they live.