This is not a matter of being social or not, all animals have a sociability in accordance to there rank within the food chain, the highest ranking species are the most socialised, the rest is fair game. Of course this has nothing to do with size, it’s about numbers.



Varanids defend territories, they defend nests, some species hunt in groups (survival skill)

There survival depends on prey availability, there babies are a source of protein for many other species, that’s why they produce large numbers of eggs.



Monitors are a contributing specie!

Social is a human term, we define what is social without any consideration of biology and ecology of species. Funny coming from an animal that offers little contribution to nature, in fact we have no natural selection.



I am not social my neighbours will tell you, but I am forced to raise my kids in accordance to social stigmas, little room for individualism.



I keep lizards that express interesting behaviours, there actions are never random but well structured, why we need to categorise them is beyond my comprehension.

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