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Originally Posted by MrBosc
That is such a wicked picture where the one is lying on the other =] makes me feel like my one is lonely now lol :P
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Thanks!
I am happy that they seem to enjoy each others' company!
However, remember that reptiles do not associate the way mammals do, and lying on top of one another is not ideal in many situations. I'm sure that most individuals do well living alone (possibly your bosc included!).
It's often a show of dominance, or a tangible message that resources are too limited, and individuals too many, in an enclosure. For example, many folks who keep reptiles over-crowd enclosures. The reptiles are forced to pile on top of one another to make use of limited resources. Those at the bottom suffer deficiencies and are often stressed.
Keeping more than one individual in a single enclosure means making sure you're providing more than enough resources--- food, security, basking spots, uvb radiation (less so with monitors), etc. I began preparing to move in the second savannah monitor weeks before I actually did so.
I want to stress that keeping two monitors together is not as straightforward as it might seem to be, and that you should avoid projecting emotions like loneliness, etc. onto reptiles.
I am fairly certain that these interactions are not stressful to either individual based on a number of other observations, but I can't really make a guess as to what's going on, especially since I haven't confirmed the sex of the second monitor, and I feel to do so would be to anthropomorphize.
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