Just some numbers I pulled out of my data files and publications; not for you, Frank, since I know that your "interpition" isn't based on very much field work. This is part of what I am basing comments about nocturnal activity in wild monitors on.



V. glauerti (527 individual observations); 34 nights between Feb and August, 1-3 hours after sunset. Number active, 0.



V. glebopalma (1404 individual observations); 45 nights between Nov and August, 1-4 hours after sunset. Number active, 0.



V. scalaris (12,806 individual observations); 41 nights between Oct and August, 1-3 hours after sunset. Number active, 0.



V. tristis (7956 individual observations); 39 nights between Nov and August, 1-3 hours after sunset. Number active, 0.



That's only 22,693 instances of radiotracked animals observed (that means seen) being diurnal, as opposed to zero being outside of refuges after dark. That's part of why I say that monitors are diurnal, but you can also have a look at their eyes, whose structure says the same thing.



These days you are mostly coming off as a comic, Frank.





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