I am sorry, I am far and away a field herper first and foremost, Everything I have brought to the table with husbandry was based on Observing it in nature FIRST. Then taking years to express it with captives.

THat includes work with kings and monitors and everything inbetween.

I do not know what makes you tick, but I was trained in a different way, or so it appears. Let me give you an example. When I first got into monitors, I did research. that is, I gathered books and papers, then I visited zoos and collections in both the states and Europe. Then I visited the animals of concern in nature. Which included traveling to Australia 14 different times, all the while building a facility to work and test the animals in question. To me, thats how you should attempt to learn.

I did the same with kings, I live and worked in both the west and east(fla) worked in zoos and collections, travel and worked with most mexican kings, etc etc etc, all the while living near and working with such kings as pyros and many getula. of course most know I spend about ten years in good old west texas.

So what did you do?

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