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I can leave my hand on there with my frail un plated skin and not burn, unless I left it on the shelf for several hours. I have worked in the sun at 104F where surface temps were all over 130F and I did not die or have my skin break out in deep burns.
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Reptiles are cold blooded. Their body temperature matches their surroundings. They don't sweat, shiver or have a built in thermostat like we do to regulate body temperature. We do. Eventually our systems will fail and we will succumb to exposure from extreme temperatures. Reptiles bake or freeze much quicker than we do. Also, you weren't locked into this environment. You could go cool off any time you wanted to.
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The monitor keeping community is very secluded, yes there are idiots at shows and new keepers but seldom any good keepers who have kept monitors alive for decades (not just breed them and replace the dead adults). Some of the keepers I know of with the oldest monitors in captivity are the same herpetologist and field researchers I talk to, coincidence? No! scientist who dedicate their lives to saving reptiles tend to know how to breed them and keep them alive.
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well good for you. Congratulations for your ability to live vicariously through others. Again, your generalizations astound me. Have you ever been to a show I vend at? Do you know the people I know? I haven't called any of your top secret "herpetologist friends" idiots. Where do you get off passing judgment on people I know without even knowing who they are. For all YOU know, it's the same bloody people. You have put yourself on some bizarre pedestal and think of yourself as an elitist. So how dare anyone call you out for giving horrible advice when you stick your upturned nose into unfamiliar unexperienced territory. Your only defense is to try and pit snake people against lizard people? Please. If we are such scum and you and your leggedy thing lovers, go wallow around and play elitist with those guys. Or can you? Do they still call you "grasshoppah"? Is that's what this is about? Not getting enough praise there so you come here and get a little from the few that don't realize how full of fecal matter you are till you slip up and try to talk snake with a few adults?
