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at Fri Aug 10 23:18:18 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
The last I heard was, the pet trade Savs are not taken from wild lands, as in natural unaltered areas. In those areas, they are hard to find and in low numbers.
They are taking them for old fields, or fields left unplanted for some period.
This is a common place to find very high populations of reptiles of many kinds. Even very rare ones.
To bring it to something you may understand, corn snakes do not eat corn, they were common around corn fields. What eats corn? MICE. hahahahahahaha
There are several places where they super populations of gilas around planted fields(and watered and fed) are you getting this.
Milksnakes in mex. Where thought to be rare until they were hunted between fields. Before hunting the fields, 3 a week was normal, hunting the fields, 400 a week happened. I could go on and on and on and on. With all sort of different reptiles including monitors.
How about I found the fourth thru the 35th ruthvens king, EVER FOUND, Hmmmmmmmmmm those dang corn fields are soooooooooooooo much fun. IT took me a few hours.
Hey, when you go snake hunting, WHAT DO YOU DO? old buildings, tin, wood piles perhaps? Its kinda funny how many individuals can inhabit those small areas.
In a nutshell, man took away all that was bad(predators) and watered fields, which nourished the plants and rodents and insects. And, and this is the funny part. Monitors are lazy, in nature they avoid hardpacked soils(99% of the areas)and seek tilted soils(soft) SOOOOOOOOOO now you got soft soils with insects and rodents and no or few predators. Guezzzzzzz it is a farm after all. Only no fences. Cheers
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RE: Any known successful savannah breeding? - FR, Fri Aug 10 23:18:18 2007