RK, what would the ultimate goal of your experiment be? To feed HL's non-ant diets? First of all what ever I am saying here is coming from me and no one else, but I have intimated before that in the wild the vast majority of scats that I have personally observed and this is over a 40 year period has been loaded with ants almost in every case. I readily admit I have found scats with other insects and as I have already stated horned lizards like all lizards are opportunistic and certianly will eat a moth a bee or what ever given the chance, but since the overwhelming scientific literature and personal information I have collected myself over the years your asking me to "think out side of the box" and while you may be having a great expereince with this, and frankly I am not dogmatic in the sense you can do what ever you want with your horned lizards, but I don't understand the sense in which you consider this thinking as "out side of the box", making a horned lizard not eat ants when it is an established fact that they are designed to eat ants, all their mouth mechanisms and defenses are set up to do exactly that. So I'll ask once more as I did in an earlier post, with no sense of anamosity; just the one question, what is the utlimate goal of not feeding a horned lizard ants?



Is it economic? Is it to prove you can do this? I guess maybe when I here you ask me to think out of the box, nature set the box in motion long ago, why is it that mankind must insist on changing and challenging the laws and protocals of natural life? Who really knows better????
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