Much of my life has been spend breeding or attempting to breed reptile species that have never or rarely been bred in captivity.

I have been very successful. In an interview, I was asked what my approach was, I answered, I treat the animals as if they are insane.

Insane, is acting or behaving out of character, non normal, deleteriously, different then normal, etc.

The reality is, captive hatched also behave in this way. Even captive hatched, behavior in ways that are insane.

Such behaviors as nose rubbing, constant crawling, sitting in one place for extended periods, eating eachother, eating their young and eggs, eating themselves, not eating, unsocial, not growing, and so much more.

The reasons for being insane are easy to understand. First and foremost, we keep them in ways completely foreign to them, in both behavioral and physical ways. Take extreme recipe keeping, there may be nothing, completely nothing normal to them. No materials, nothing that they can recognize. And raised in a way completely foreign to their social development. Temps and humidity that are middle of the road to what they normally utilize, etc. So why would we expect anything other then insanity? end pt 1

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