Posted by:
FR
at Thu Sep 27 13:16:31 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Hi HH, I get the feeling you have this ALL and I mean ALL wrong.
First, monitors have very poor near-sight. So, like a dog, they confirm what they see by smell. You put a hand to a dog, to confirm what(who) you are. Same for monitors.
That hissing thing is more about doubt, they do not know what you are. YET! let them smell you first and behaviors can be totally different.
Of course, tramatized monitors will bite and for good reason, they have been rendered (up to) insane. You task as a keeper is to reorganize their behaviors back to something normal.
A longterm captive raised animal like this one, is most likely unsure of what is going on, so tell it.
Of course it could only be my monitors that cannot see still determine still objects up close. But hey, they are dang good and moving objects up close. They tend to bite them and determine what they are later. Cheers
[ Show Entire Thread ]
|
