Diet Overlap

Vulpes bengalensis (Bengal Fox)
Varanus bengalensis (Bengal Monitor)

Common Diet

Ptyas mucosa (Dhaman, Oriental Ratsnake)
Sitana ponticeriana (Fan Throated Lizard)

Common Habitat

Baluchistan xeric woodlands
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
Deccan thorn scrub forests
East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
Himalaya
Himalayan subtropical pine forests
Indo-Burma
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Malabar Coast moist forests
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
North Western Ghats montane rain forests
Northern dry deciduous forests
Northwestern thorn scrub forests
Orissa semi-evergreen forests
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
South Western Ghats montane rain forests
Sunderban
Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 18.2 Indian fox, Vulpes bengalensis, A.J.T. Johnsingh and Y.V. Jhala, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 2Population Status of Two Varanus species (Reptilia: Sauria: Varanidae) in Sri Lanka’s Puttalam Lagoon System, with Notes on their Diet and Conservation Status, D.M.S. SURANJAN KARUNARATHNA, A.A. THASUN AMARASINGHE, MAJINTHA B. MADAWALA & H.K. DUSHANTHA KANDAMBI, Biawak, 6(1), pp. 22-33 2012
♦ 3DIETARY NICHE SEPARATION BETWEEN SYMPATRIC FREE-RANGING DOMESTIC DOGS AND INDIAN FOXES IN CENTRAL INDIA, ABI TAMIM VANAK AND MATTHEW E. GOMPPER, Journal of Mammalogy, 90(5):1058–1065, 2009