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Bingo!

Very nice! Your Albig is pretty impressive. Do you have any more videos?
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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Not at the moment, but I'm working on it. Thanks Mike!

>>Not at the moment, but I'm working on it. Thanks Mike!

Be sure to post them when you do. I'd love to see more. Just don't get bit in the process

HAHA...here's a pic Bill Love took of me taking a bite to the face....OUCH!

I'm going to make some videos soon. I'm such a perfectionist, the whole editing thing will probably put about 10 years on me
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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Not sure why my other video disappeared, but here's a little of my 3' female Albig 'Dozer' taking bits of f/t chicks from my hand. Trying to get better shots, but don't want to 'stage' it, so have to wait for them to cooperate.
Thanks for looking!

Working on getting full body shots, but this is all I can get for now.
Thanks for looking.

Both videos are super. Keepers interacting with their animals (not picking up/cuddling) is fascinating stuff. I'm looking forward to more videos.

Here are some of my "interaction" photos...

Mike Stefani, letting a Peachie interact with him (he'll open the cage front and they'll walk right up his arm like it's a log...

Me, working with the tree boa enclosures (much like monitors; full of personality and not likely to tolerate being smothered with excessive handling)

There's no joy like having self contained mini environments for our animals to live in and have an undisturbed, unmolested life. I find "interaction" to be much more fascinating than "handling"

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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Thank you Mike. I'm just learning about monitor behaviour, but want to err on the side of caution, when it comes to handling/interaction. It's more fascinating to me, to have 'them' show/teach 'me' what they're all about. If I were to approach Brutus in the same way I do my female, there would be hissing and tail whipping from the big guy. He's grumpy and I love him.
She's a sweetheart and I adore her. The whole 'experience' is priceless.

Thanks for sharing those great pics of yourself and Mike and for the encouraging comments on my videos.

Hey bro! Those pictures are awesome! And I agree 110%...Interaction is much better for BOTH the keeper and the animal than Handling!

Keep up the good work!

-Shane

Just kidding, thanks for the videos!

They outgrow their toys so quickly. I used to use that same size dish for a water dish for smaller lizards. I think Sobek could soak one of her front feet in it now, lol.

Reminds me alot of my friends old WT "Blaize". Only he was wild at feeding time, well sometimes he was. If you caught him on the right feeding day he would fly out of the cage mouth first and take the rodents from you before you could get the cage door open. Sometimes you could hand them to him, and sometimes he just ignored food until you left it alone with him.
Videos of monitor lizards sometimes are difficult to get what you were trying to show. Also feeding videos can be difficult if you try feeding with tongs and holding the camera at the same time.

>>Reminds me alot of my friends old WT "Blaize". Only he was wild at feeding time, well sometimes he was. If you caught him on the right feeding day he would fly out of the cage mouth first and take the rodents from you before you could get the cage door open. Sometimes you could hand them to him, and sometimes he just ignored food until you left it alone with him.
>>Videos of monitor lizards sometimes are difficult to get what you were trying to show. Also feeding videos can be difficult if you try feeding with tongs and holding the camera at the same time.

My 3 foot female BT flys out of her cage at feeding time as well, unless we throw the food in fast and shut the cage.

Thanks for sharing, its amazing watching them
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