Its about understanding reptiles, all reptiles USE a range of temps and humidities. They move back and forth in those ranges, as needed. This is the definition of being a reptile. Mammals have a very small range of temps(internally) Reptiles have a very large range and its obtained mostly from the enviornment. Mammals use metabolism to create and maintain their needed temps(some mammals use a wider range, such as hibernationing mammals)

What your task as a keeper is, to allow a range to fit the givin species and individual. The real point is, WHAT THE HECK IS THE RANGE. Funny thing is, You do not need to know. All you do is copy nature. NATURE always has temps above what they use, and below what they use. They the reptiles, are expert at picking what they need inbetween those ranges. Your job is to allow the experts(the animals) to be experts. Its not to TELL THEM WHAT THEY ARE. Or to tell them what temps they are suppose to use. Again, its your job to let them just be them. It really is that simple.

The huge problem with humans and americans are amoung the most human, is we think we have to tell reptiles what they are, and other people what they are. Kinda why the world hates us. Sorry for the politics.

My problem with(the) academics is this very same thing. They believe their words are the definition of what these animals are, yet show a complete lack of expertise when keeping them. You see, their beliefs do not add up to results. So whom knows what??????

Yet they tell me how wrong I am, but I am seriously successful compared to them.

There is reason for this. I simply allow the real experts to be experts, and that is the animals in question. Then I make observations, the truth is, I do not need to know anything, other then let the monitors do their own thing.

I do lots of field work with reptiles. In a nut shell, all they do is move from condition to condition as needed. Kinda like a rubics cube of conditions, and they move from square to square. Sir, that is their life.

In captivity, we have humans who tell the animals what to do, then when the animals fail, they blame the animal. The definition of narcisisum(sp) Hey.

So no, its not just more heat, its often very much the other way, They need heat and cool, they need to choose between them in ways they understand. Its simple. Cheers

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