Your again completely wrong, We simply did not agree on varanids. I am a field guy, he was academic. He did come here and I showed him backup for my concepts, like prey availability.
Took him to a collarded lizard site.

Had him look at the prey base and I asked how long would it take to fill up their stomachs. His answer, a couple of minutes, I asked, how often, his answer, anytime they wanted.


Here he is on my study site. I also took him to see paired social reptiles of many types, including a pair of torts that are still there and together today. many years later.
he stayed at my house, and he saw, mertens nesting and laying eggs, his first monitor nesting, ever. He saw female varanids, form eggs in one day. He did not believe that possible. He saw them in groups, living in peace. He saw them hunt in groups, like wolves or cape hunting dogs, taking down large prey. He watched that in amazement. Daniel is incredibly smart and talented. That's not the problem. We grew apart when he wanted to start his field study, he wanted me to go, but I couldn't, I have hundreds of monitors to support and a family. We also had different approaches to what he should do. I suggested he spend a year in Australia and study a species that's easy, so he could learn the basics. Instead, he simply had no idea of how to tell a male from a female, or the look of a gravid female. Or patterns and routines that are the base of varanid behavior. Instead he chose to study a species that you cannot see. And he was restricted on where to go, he was limited to one small area. No, hes really smart, he just needed to apply that.

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