If you re read you will notice that I do mention that I currently have one savannah that I inherited. I have had him for several years now, long enough that I cannot recall how long I've actually had him. I have fed him basically the same way I feed the rest of my monitors. Sometimes they get rats sometimes they get mice, sometimes they get soft furred rats, sometimes they get eggs, sometimes they get bugs. It really depends on what is most readily available, or what has not been eaten by some of my wife's finicky (sometimes) boids.

As Frank and Murindinni (sorry if I have misspelled it.) have both mentioned temps humidity and enclosure specifics are much more important than splitting hairs about the diet. With all due respect to Daniel Bennett's studies monitors are opportunistic predators/scavengers that will eat what they can when they can get it. If it happens to be bugs then it's bugs, if it happens to be a nest of rodents or eggs that they can get that's what they eat. I mentioned on here before with respect to Daniel Bennett's study, that while it's results are valuable they represent one population of savannahs during a small widow of time. I once watched a coyote sit under a light in my neighbors backyard and eat bugs for hours on end, I watched it do this for several months, occasionally I would observe the same coyote venture into another neighbors garage and eat dog food. I cannot go out and say based on that limited observation that coyotes eat only bugs and dog food, But to do so would be the same as saying savannahs only eat bugs (most of which were millipedes you can't even legally buy in fl. btw.... fyi my savannah ignores the native millipedes.)

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