It's natural because it is a prey. You think a monitor cares if it feeds on a Blaptica Dubia or a Myriapoda Diplopoda? Why does that even matter to you? It's not like I'm advocating the use of dog food or gamy duck. And I did not say that keeping them active all year round is detrimental their health. I said that in the case of savannah monitors, they are specially adapted to storing fats in their body for the dry season, therefore a brumation period to help burn off excess fat storage may be advantageous to the Savannah monitor. Also, in case you decide to ask, the correlation I was making with a brumation period and breeding was that some monitors breed during certain seasons or a specific occurrence - water monitors for instance -breed after a certain month during the rainy season(whenever that may be, I couldn't tell you specifically off hand but if you watch the NATO special on monitors you'll see it.)

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