Basic life events are, to hatch, to grow to adulthood, to reproduce, to live a productive life, then past on from old age.

Of course, all those areas have many catagories that can be enriched. All those areas can be measured by degrees of success.

But we should at least be able to achieve the basic life events, then we enrich each are as we learn.

You do not need to duplicate nature to achieve this, you only must provide basic needs. Much like breeding mice, food, water, right temps, etc. Of course, because reptiles are not indotherms, we must provide the right temps.

My point with all this natural history stuff is reflected by your comments. You do not even need to know where they came from. With monitors, a mate if first and foremost, then proper temps and a decent diet, they proper nesting. Much like most other captive animals.

For instance, what would you think of someone who could not breed hamsters, rats or mice? Would you think they knew the basics?

Or what kind of life is just being healthy in a cage.

Please consider, as a field worker, I know what wild monitors are and I understand why many biologists do not like what they see when they see captive monitors(monitors in a box).

Well it's easy and very basic to allow simple life events. Of course, more advanced life functions after that is achieved is, even better. Cheers

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