Has anyone heard of anyone or any group that is attempting to selectively breed Nile monitors (or any monitor species)? The idea is that if you select monitors with more calm/tolerant personalities and breed them over many generations, you may eventually end up with calmer lizards. I know that this is a process that dogs, cats, cows, horses, and other animals have been going through for thousands of years. I've never heard of anyone attempting this process with a reptile. Though it would probably take several generations of breeders to achieve the final result, someone has to start somewhere. Anyways, just thought I'd try to get some conversation started on this sub-forum as it has been very dead lately.
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Domesticating the Nile monitor
r_ak47
Jan 25, 2006 09:45 PM
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JPsShadow
Feb 03, 2006 12:49 PM
The thing is you have to be good at keeping them first, then breed them, then do it consistantly. So far there hasn't been enough of us doing this. The traits being bred for currently are patterns and colors.
First you crawl then you walk. After you walk without falling over then you can think about running.
