varanusaurus:" You have not show any concrete evidence of lace monitors as obligate termite nesters, and that is a fairly bold claim."



As I have said, the holes in the mound were in response to FR's assertion that 'if' lace monitors commonly nested in termite mounds they'd leave telltale scars. I was merely showing that they do leave scars and that they are common. In a separate post I showed evidence for how the scars were made.



My comments about lace monitors being obligate termite mound nesters were not based on those scars (or even on the other photos, for that matter). Nor did I say I had concrete proof: What I had actually said is that I think they are obligate termite mound nesters in much of their range because the climate in a huge chunk of their range (including the areas from with the lace monitors owned by FR and myself originate) would not allow them to nest successfully in leaf litter, sawdust (or the ground, for that matter). When combined with all of the known evidence (not just my own, but scientific evidence, as well as observations by lay people and herpers alike) that they nest in termite mounds, compared with virtually no evidence of them nesting anywhere else in the wild, it presents a pretty strong case. I then went on to ask why someone would base their nesting husbandry on a guess of what a very small proportion of the population might do in an area outside of the area from which their very own animals came, rather than base it on what, at very least, the vast majority of that population does.



varanusaurus:"...Do they teach the scientific method in Australia? :P "



Do they teach reading comprehension in America? :P

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