Goanna Ranch

[treevaranus]

I agree with what you're saying Scott,

What I am trying to say is that Frank is stepping out of his league by making attacks on wild monitor biologists, and outlandish claims of wild monitor behaviors never seen before(by anyone except for FR).

I do not disagree that FR is good at what he is, a reptile breeder. However he is way out of his 'specialization' when discussing wild monitors. Which goes back to my reasoning in my initial post, when Spike was looking to ask FR about monitor biology and ecology... Something that is not Frank's 'cup of tea'.....

As FR got good at what he does(breed monitors), he developed quite a bit of an ego. With this ego, he became confident that because he breeds monitors, he knows what they do in the wild, challenging renown monitor biologists who have dedicated many years and decades to studying them in the wild. Challenging them in Australia, or Indonesia, or Africa, while sitting in his backyard in Arizona.....

There are clearly two separate aspects here.. captivity vs. wild.

Since monitors have all originated in the wild(they are wild animals), I see it better to base their needs and requirements of what they need in captivity off of what they use in nature. After all, that is where they come from/originated from!!!

Going by FR's stance, he has a bit of an opposite twist of beliefs. He believes that studying the behaviors, biology, and ecology of monitors in captivity(man made/artificial/not natural/not where monitors originated from) is a way of understanding wild monitors...

That just sounds backwards and assenine to me. Therefore, i feel that FR is way out of his league, to try to step in to the wild fora, and contest and denounce people who have experience are out in the field day and night, for weeks/months/years....