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Posted by: SHvar at Sun Mar 19 12:24:25 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]  
   

Conditions created to allow for constant growth, and constant temps, no reptile will ever eat as much as a mammal close to its size ot weight.
I have a book somewhere that compares a theoretical 100lb dog to a theoretical 100lb lizard, the dog eats 10 times the food to survive and be healthy in one year as the lizard does no matter what conditions are present, that is why there is no comparison. The example of why large reptiles survive so well in areas that have conditions not suitable for large predatory mammals, this has to do partly with lack of or availability of food consistently.


   

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