Gregg - I do think Monitors have an amazing capacity, for reptiles, to learn and memorize things. They fine-tune how to eat certain prey items efficiently from the first times to the polished technique - things like crawfish that must be eaten in "reverse" while mice are usually taken head-first. They also get very very good at moving to safe areas when spooked in a cage while some other reptiles just bang the glass or wall and almost knock themselves unconscious. It's little things they learn that impresses me. They most definitely recognize things they've seen or experienced previously and get better at dealing with it with more repetition. But do I "rank" them vs some other animals based on my human/anthropomorphic tasks not knowing how "motivated" they are to do the task?...no. I too can appreciate them for what they are and don't really think in terms of making them superior. I just happen to really dig Monitors and keep a whole crapload of them here. Why exactly they blow my skirt up?....I don't really know.

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