Posted by:
murrindindi
at Thu Jun 9 11:56:50 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by murrindindi ]
Hi moe64 and twillis10, first, thanks to you Moe, for stating the more accurate "description" of V. niloticus (in my personal experience). In reality, they are NO MORE defensive than most other varanid species.
It seems to me, it`s their "bad reputation" as much as anything else; people call them the most "aggressive" monitor species, and so when they get them, they are already preconditioned to expect nothing more than that from them, and it works nearly every time (failure).
This is NOT to say these animals will become "tame" (whatever that word means to each of us),rather, treat them like any other large monitor species, not as something apart....
Twillis10: They ARE defensive, the problem is as I describe, when keepers insist on using the word "aggressive"; does that mean they deliberately try to harm us (out of "spite" perhaps)?
I`m SURE you don`t actually think that way!
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