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RE: Metabolism high in hogs vs kings?

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Posted by: Gregg_M_Madden at Tue Dec 2 19:21:25 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Gregg_M_Madden ]  
   

Frank,
This thread is about metabolism. It evolved into a conversation about metabolism VS digestion. If you are going to make the comparison between hogs and kings, you can make the comparison to anything.

Would gaboons hold their fecal matter in the wild the same as they do in captivity? The answer is yes. There have been studies done on this subject both in field observations and in captivity.
As far as offering them a 110 degree basking area goes, they do not need it nor would they utilize it if it were offered. They do not have those conditions in their natural environment. I also offered them high basking spots that they would never use. Not even after a meal or while being gravid. They completely avoided these basking spots. That is from over 10 years of my own observations and I kept them better and way more successfully than most.

Anyway, me bringing up gaboons was just an example of how metabolic rate and rate of digestion differ and proves that the speed of one is not dictated by the speed of the other.


   

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