Sorry Bob, you should reread your own posts, I try to stay away from your posts. I think at one time we made some sort of deal, along those lines, Why don't you stick to it.

Bob, I have been to the Iron range and I have been to indo. But as you know, prasinus are not my idea of what I like in a monitor. So that means I do not waste my time on things that do not blow my skirt up.

Again weather or not I did, has nothing to do with the post. Prasinus are monitors. Monitors spend a great deal of the time in. The big secret that monitors keep is the in this area, the in.

What bothers me about you is words, you take far to much importance in words and being right or wrong for that matter. Aboreal, burrower, indo, desert, ozzie, etc, have no bearing in cages. the caged animals are IN CAGES. Also, you think pointing out wrong is fun. ITs meaningless, we are wrong all the time. Its the times we are right that has value. Think about that.

Being in, burrowing, does not mean its the ground. Because its on the bottom of your cage, does not mean its the earth. The branches in your cage are not aboreal either.

Whether they burrow in leaflitter on the forest floor, or inside a dead tree or parts of a tree thats dead, does not matter, in captivity. Whether its mulch in a dead tree or mulch on the forest floor, again does not matter in a cage. Your cage will never be, earth or aboreal, or mid elevation. Your cage and mine, will always and forever only be cages. They will normally go from the floor to at most the ceiling. Never reaching the status of aboreal or subterrian.

Our task is to give them things they recognize. Whether is dirt for a sand monitor, leaflitter for forest monitors, or decomposed plant material, its makes no difference. IN fact, you do not need to know the country of origin or species. You may be better off not knowing anything and offering different materials and SEE what they like and use, not what they are suppose to like and use based on your or "somebodies" illconcieved notions.

In fact, my opinion is, monitors would be far better of if we did not know anything(or think we know) and we simply took care of them, based on what they choose. Cheers and leave me alone. I am done with you.

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