This not only true with monitors which have a lot of intelligence for reptiles but I have seen it with day geckoes which although rather smart for geckoes are still pretty stupid in the reptile world. I use a five quart Ice cream tub for holding crickets when I feed and they can see me coming with that thing a mile away. My wife noticed years ago with our large Boids (and they're really stupid) that they would react differently to me who does the cleaning than they would to her as she does the feeding (they're her snakes). My iguanas have always responded to me at feeding time in rather excited manner but one time when I tried to show their dinner time response to a freind they all dove in their pool and hid. My monitors all seem to disappear when strangers come over and want to see them. Based on what I have seen over the years I suspect that the so called "nuissance" gators here in Fla. who supposedly "lose fear of Humans" from being fed only lose fear of the people who are feeding them. So the guilty parties are probably the ones who call and complain about being chased by the gator.

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• Do they recognize you? - Paradon, Wed Dec 5 23:09:54 2007
• RE: I am inclined to say yes. - sidbarvin, Wed Dec 5 23:30:42 2007
• RE: I am inclined to say yes. - MadAxeMan, Thu Dec 6 07:46:40 2007
• RE: Do they recognize you? - Sonya, Sun Dec 9 13:58:40 2007