The first one was exhausted, cold, and drowned, the second one died about a year later (from what I read, an update that proved the point).
Those monitors werent trained, they were cold, overweight, slow, exhausted, and the owner took advantage of knowing a few basic things about monitors, then convinced a load of people that they were trained.
Sure, I have a few trained monitors, two eat from a long pair of hemostats (not shorter tongs), one eats from whatever I offer the food from with the door cracked barely open (if not I have a 4ft flaviargus flying out of the cage, and running up my leg, jaws snapping, I guess he trained me), one enormous monitor eats from tongs, hemostats, a snake grabber, or my hands (dont try this unless you know a monitor very well).
As far as temps go, I can guage them and their effects because I know what a healthy monitor is. I have one monitor (an albig) that can easily go outdoors at temps from 40f on up for periods of time with no problems (but I know when enough is enough by simply looking at her, this doesnt happen but rarely now).
I think the videos are an example of how the people who saw them and thought they were trained very well, were trained by the video owner to think so.

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