Sam being a comic would be absolutely great, unfortunately, your beating me at it.



The point is not, in or about your numbers. Its simply about the ones that were active. Why, where, when, how? questions, you always neglect to ask.



Mountain out of a molehill, something you love to do. First, I am not concerned what they do or what you think they do at night. Why would I be? Natural monitors will go on doing what they do, and my captives will also go on doing what they do, even if its at night. If you could actually read, you would have read in my post, monitor behavior is predominately diurnal. I really hate to explain what that means to you, OK, I will, that means, most of their Behaviors(at least human observed behaviors) have been diurnal. Nocturnal active behavior are rare, but it has been noted(in nature) Please understand, many things common to monitors is rare to mans observations, you know very simple things like nesting and breeding(in nature)are rarely observed. Yet, I am positive, these all occur on a regular basis. Nocturnal behavior in captivity is commonly observed, period. Just ask the people here Sam, oh yea, you do not ask questions, why is that Sam?



My real concern, you seem to miss,(I've said it over and over) what are they doing in dark areas in the day. I hope you understand, monitors spend most of their life, inside something. Oh by the way, Dennis King(ver. com.) told me on his Flavi study, on average they only came out, parts of 2 or 3 days a week. Hey, he may have published that.



Now with that in mind, were they asleep all day, when inside, and sleeping all night too?



If I may, If i would take your approach, that would mean, They are sleeping 24/7 for five days= 120 hrs. Plus the nights of two days=24 hrs. So, if they are active two full days, 12 hrs a day, then two days is=24 hrs. Subtract the 24 active hrs a week, from a total of 168 possible hours and the result is, THEY ARE SLEEPING 144 HRS A WEEK. Is that how we are to interpit his statement? To be accurate, he did say, 2 or 3 days a week, so lets make it, THey are sleeping between 132 to 144 hrs a week. Remember, thats if they were active at least 12 hrs a day, which I believe is not normal.



Well, that does seem like a lot of sleeping, what am I to make of that?



Now please understand this Sam, your believes or preaching, have no effect on me. They do nothing to my monitors either, They(the monitors) will continue to, hatch, grow, breed, multiclutch, hatch, then grow, breed, and multiclutch in spite of you. They(many species) will continue to do this for generations, as they have in the past. Also, they will continue to be social animals and pair bond, in spite of what you say.



I guess the point is, in elementary school terms, They(my monitors) and by association, me, have the bag of marbles, and you don't and by association your monitors don't either, sad hey.

In real terms Sam, your infinite knowledge of monitors, has not gotten you very far with your captives, and my poor, comic, ignorant knowledge has gottem me very far. I wonder what kind of formula this fits? FR

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