As many of you know, I have a nile monitor, one of his latest behaviors I've noticed is that if he's not hungry and there's a mouse in the tank, he'll kill it and just leave battered thing to rot under the lamp. Anyone else ever notice this behavior out of monitors? He only seems to do this when he's not particularly hungry, otherwise its down the gullet.

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I have no idea as to why but we used to have a tegu at the pet store I worked at and he would eat like a pig some days and then others he'd just kill the prey and leave it. Sometimes the savannah monitor would do it too.

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Our Iguana when he wants to be a brat will knock his food bowl off is perch and onto the floor dumping all the greens. Then he will shake his head up and down "like I'm the king, and I don't want this simple grub".

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My iguana does the same thing, and my snakes every so often will strike and coil, then just drop the mouse and cruise around the feed box for a while before coming back to it.

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Now that I think about it your right about the snakes. Our hatchling ball and common do the same thing, I have even had to grab it with the tongs and do the wiggle thing again and start the process over again.

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My female gold skink has done that with pinkies. Of the two she's been offered ever, one was gobbled up instantly; the other was brutally assaulted, lacerated and left bleeding and burning in the tank light (I euthanized it seconds later).

My ig's done that a few times. I'll give him a nice serving of greens, and he comes straight over as if he's been starving for
days. (*rolls eyes* He does that every feeding, and I feed him twice a day.) I usually leave the room so that he can eat in peace, but sometimes I'll go back in and he's just left a lot of the food there, or spread it around like kids sometimes do when they don't want to eat their peas. But after I clean it up, usually he'll immediately start getting restless, looking for his food. If I put more in, he'll eat it.

Don't ask me, I don't always understand every behavior. I feel sorry for the live mice/rat eaters' owners though. I don't have a problem with the food chain at all, but I'd hate to have to euthanize a mouse or rat because my reptile damaged it and didn't eat it. That's a lot more messy than cleaning up greens.

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