For nastiness and Jonny.

And please, do not take words out, or put words in, when you read it.

I came here with a mission, that was to make and set up cages that would express what hogs are and do. I asked if anyone was doing such a thing. I also mentioned, I was not interested in rack system keeping. And mentioned, I was part of their development.

I also said, what my goals are, and what my models were, which was natural hognose.

In that no one offered help or experience, I set out testing, as many conditions as I could. From rack system, to large cages, to deep substrate, to many kinds of substrate. Which to me is only normal. As one who build exhibits for a living, its good to have the background information before you build a cage.

I also expressed my interest in field work and that I was looking at hognose. And I am. I specialize in behavior, which is ethology. There are rules of study that are specifically designed for behavior. I already listed these many times.

!. observation 2. naturalistic observation and 3 participant observation. Three areas used in ethology.

Number two is, naturalistic observation which involves setting up specific conditions to express specific behaviors. Its here, I wanted to build a cage that could have the ability to express several types of behaviors. The cage I am building now is based on that.

With varanids, I also did this stuff, but was forced to have many cages for one pair or group of monitors. I most likely will have to do that as well.

In the meantime, I am also working of producing a new morph, which is opportunity based, I found them and hope to not waste that opportunity. Much of my testing was with this morph, as well as normal phenotypes and westerns(control animals)

With that in mind, lets go to pt 2

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