I will clarify my vocabulary by stating that when I said "experiment", I did not mean it in the sense of a strictly controlled observation to verify a thesis. It was meant in jest. That is my fault for using specific vocabulary without adding a caveat.
However, that "experience" alone was not the sole, nor most pivotal reason for the conclusions I have since come to with regards to the subject. You are going along on a premise that there will be a marked difference in the efficiency of this diet, based upon whether the animals are captive bred or wild. I think that is a flawed assumption. At this point it would be a theory at best...therefore, making it something you should not responsibly advocate without your own scientific data.
As for me: My position stands most firmly on the information gleaned from talking to Lester, and which was confirmed by my own husbandry knowledge in line with that, which also applied to other herps that I have experience with. I.e., improper captive diets too high in protein and fat, which leads to health and growth problems. There was also a bit if common sense in my conclusions; because it doesn't matter whether you buy into creationism or Dawinism and natural selection. The result is the same: which is that the majority of the species within this genus are DESIGNED by God, nature, planetary alignment, or cosmic ether...to eat Harvester ants as a staple diet. And I find it curious that Havester ants can be found aboundant in almost every area where these lizards are native. I think there is something to that. Disagree at your lizards peril.
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"A man that should call everything by it's right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy." The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax 1912,246

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