Lol, there's probably a real clinical term for it in behavioral training or psychology, but I have no experience with either, so I just call it what it is to me using what I'm familiar with - Grinding in video games.
Very few people can really grasp the thinking and motivation i reptile brains. This is so excellently explained and presented. So many people can learn from seing this footage. It's amazing how much memory is in their heads. In iguanas, I've seen an iguana react the same way to a person, after 2 years of not seeing that individual. I think it's quite possible that intelligent reptiles remember for life 😊
It's sad because I think a lot more people could grasp it, it's just that they don't even acknowledge that it exists, and so aren't even looking. Just because their brains are devoted to simpler means than ours, it doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. Abstract thought may be useless to them, but they have been around a lot longer than us and know what the hell they need to waste brain energy on.
He’s also respectful of the dog! He understands the dogs fear. Your training and treatment of the reptiles is fascinating. You’ve maintained their free will and independence for them!
Thank you! I truly believe that it's key to getting the best out of a relationship with them. Every monitor is a free roaming predator in the wild. They want to patrol their territory, run off rivals, look for mating opportunities, and search for food. By letting them express these drives, you get to see a lot more of their individual personalities and quirks and they are more tolerant of your presence. They're very smart, if you try to corral them or are always controlling them, they get irritated because they see what you are doing. As for the dogs... The monitors were desensitized to their presence before mine as the dogs were always around when I was at work, so they got more time in presence. All three have approached the dogs on multiple occasions, but Kale does it 10 times as much since he's so confident walking around on the floor. Early on, the dogs would just get up and walk away as he got near, which is why in some of the clips seen here, Kale is trying to low crawl up to them. He's just so curious of them but he knows they are going to get up and leave if they spot him. I don't know that he understands their fear, but he definitely understands that he's got to be sneaky to get close enough. The dogs aren't even afraid of the monitors though. They get up and leave because early on I was concerned with safety and I didn't know how the monitors would react to the dog's movements, so I would always tell the dog to "git" before the monitors got within a few feet of them. The dogs understood that I didn't want them near the monitors and started to preemptively "get up and go". I calmed down about it over time and just stay close to make sure it's all ok. Never had an issue and recently there were even a couple times where the dogs even participated in the exchange by smelling back so I got to witness some "monitor tongue on dog snout" action.
@@TreeMonitorTraining Very interesting! So the dogs are responding as you’ve trained them! I’m obsessed with a colony of Peter’s Rock agamas in my yard- and the male is a free roaming predator who looks over his females, protects them from perimeter threats, and is greeted and snuggled with by the females when he returns to the “home base” tree! They LOVE him! It took around four months before they let me look at them! Eye contact was forbidden! These are highly intelligent lizards. I had a breakthrough when I was planting around the base of their tree with some insect-rich compost. Four females ran down and ate some, then returned to the trunk at my eye level! Suddenly, they weren’t afraid and we were looking each other in the eye! The male showed up later and also was no longer afraid of me! They communicated this to him, apparently. I go out of my way now, to show them I won’t disturb them. I’ve never tried to touch them. I also have an area where 5-6 baby agamas live. I watch them hunt, grow and increase their territory as they gain confidence. They know my voice, I believe. This is why I enjoy your monitor training so much! They are similar to the agamas!
@@cherylj7460 Had to look those lizards up, very beautiful animals. Reptiles are a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. They catalog all the sounds and sights in their environment and determine what's a threat and what's not. Sounds like your backyard agamas aren't concerned about you anymore.
"Farming reps" you've coined a training phrase in the monitor world.
Lol, there's probably a real clinical term for it in behavioral training or psychology, but I have no experience with either, so I just call it what it is to me using what I'm familiar with - Grinding in video games.
@@TreeMonitorTraining it's perfect, says an entire concept in two words. Any gamer worth their salt would get it.
@@CypressWalker Here's to hoping the viewers aren't a bunch of filthy casuals.
@@TreeMonitorTraining ROFL
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Beyond words!! You should be very proud of yourself!!!!!👍🏼👍🏼you are the lizard whisperer!!!!
Thank you very much!
Kale is so beautiful. The green tree monitor reminds me of a giant anole! Very delicate and precise. And calm.
Yeah, I love his coloring.
Very few people can really grasp the thinking and motivation i reptile brains. This is so excellently explained and presented. So many people can learn from seing this footage.
It's amazing how much memory is in their heads.
In iguanas, I've seen an iguana react the same way to a person, after 2 years of not seeing that individual.
I think it's quite possible that intelligent reptiles remember for life 😊
It's sad because I think a lot more people could grasp it, it's just that they don't even acknowledge that it exists, and so aren't even looking. Just because their brains are devoted to simpler means than ours, it doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. Abstract thought may be useless to them, but they have been around a lot longer than us and know what the hell they need to waste brain energy on.
He’s also respectful of the dog! He understands the dogs fear. Your training and treatment of the reptiles is fascinating. You’ve maintained their free will and independence for them!
Thank you! I truly believe that it's key to getting the best out of a relationship with them. Every monitor is a free roaming predator in the wild. They want to patrol their territory, run off rivals, look for mating opportunities, and search for food. By letting them express these drives, you get to see a lot more of their individual personalities and quirks and they are more tolerant of your presence. They're very smart, if you try to corral them or are always controlling them, they get irritated because they see what you are doing.
As for the dogs... The monitors were desensitized to their presence before mine as the dogs were always around when I was at work, so they got more time in presence. All three have approached the dogs on multiple occasions, but Kale does it 10 times as much since he's so confident walking around on the floor. Early on, the dogs would just get up and walk away as he got near, which is why in some of the clips seen here, Kale is trying to low crawl up to them. He's just so curious of them but he knows they are going to get up and leave if they spot him. I don't know that he understands their fear, but he definitely understands that he's got to be sneaky to get close enough. The dogs aren't even afraid of the monitors though. They get up and leave because early on I was concerned with safety and I didn't know how the monitors would react to the dog's movements, so I would always tell the dog to "git" before the monitors got within a few feet of them. The dogs understood that I didn't want them near the monitors and started to preemptively "get up and go".
I calmed down about it over time and just stay close to make sure it's all ok. Never had an issue and recently there were even a couple times where the dogs even participated in the exchange by smelling back so I got to witness some "monitor tongue on dog snout" action.
@@TreeMonitorTraining Very interesting! So the dogs are responding as you’ve trained them!
I’m obsessed with a colony of Peter’s Rock agamas in my yard- and the male is a free roaming predator who looks over his females, protects them from perimeter threats, and is greeted and snuggled with by the females when he returns to the “home base” tree! They LOVE him!
It took around four months before they let me look at them! Eye contact was forbidden! These are highly intelligent lizards.
I had a breakthrough when I was planting around the base of their tree with some insect-rich compost. Four females ran down and ate some, then returned to the trunk at my eye level! Suddenly, they weren’t afraid and we were looking each other in the eye! The male showed up later and also was no longer afraid of me! They communicated this to him, apparently. I go out of my way now, to show them I won’t disturb them. I’ve never tried to touch them. I also have an area where 5-6 baby agamas live. I watch them hunt, grow and increase their territory as they gain confidence. They know my voice, I believe.
This is why I enjoy your monitor training so much! They are similar to the agamas!
@@cherylj7460 Had to look those lizards up, very beautiful animals.
Reptiles are a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. They catalog all the sounds and sights in their environment and determine what's a threat and what's not. Sounds like your backyard agamas aren't concerned about you anymore.
Cool.
Appreciate it. Thanks!