Exactly, as a field herper, you know they make choices as to where to go, all the time. They utilize their enviornment. As a AC flipper, your task is to figure out what natural conditions causes them to use your AC lines. You do know what supports that, don't you. You also know, they do not use that AC all the time, just at certain times and for certain reasons.

Snakes pick places they can spend hours at, then move to the next place. Lizards pick places they spend minutes at, then move to the next place.

Its all about finding whats needed to support what they are doing. Yet in captivity, we(whats normal these days) is give them the middle of the middle, then wonder why they have marginal problems.

As a field guy, its so so so plain to see, the way we keep them is no where as good as the average conditions in nature. In nature, they have more of everything. And its not close.

Whats funny is, we all know they live with parasites in nature, not a problem, they can heal from horrifying wounds, they live throught freezing and heat, and floods and drought.

In nature prey is available all the time, 24/7, all they have to do is get it. If they find a lot, is that power feeding???? In captivity they feed when we allow them to feed, not when they are hungry.

Yet in captivity, they must be fixed from those problems and still they are touchy. Worm them, don't allow cold or hot, etc etc.

Then we think the captives can outproduce the wild ones?????????? Why do we think that, when everything else they do in nature is superior to what occurs in captivity? Oh I know, because we know what they do in captivity and do not have a clue as to what they do, reproduction wise, in nature. hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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