I understand that a monitor will manipulate its environment for many reasons. One of my pet peeves is “cold blooded) their blood can be 105F so how is that cold blooded. Back to the subject at hand. I understand a lizard must manipulate its environment in the temperature sense such as lack of food (turn off) go underground and cool off or food is in abundance (eat up and heat up) or I need to make eggs (eat up and heat up) all this I understand. I know that when a lizard is getting ready to hibernate it will clear out the food and shut down. I understand monitors do not need to shut down .

So I assume your answer to my original question is variable, offer a reasonable cool spot and a reasonable hot basking spot as well as burrows. I was wondering how hot an average monitor will bask? Pick one say what is the hottest one of your monitors will bask? I used the collard lizard as I take actual body temperatures at 112F assuming the gun is accurate. I want to know how hot is hot 140? I assume as you use birds as an example they like it around 100F as a baseline for most.
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