Or should I say "Re-production control."



I've been so busy that it seems like a week since we were discussing this. I had to bactrack to refresh my memory. Just to try to help you out, here's a copy of your last post.



> > > About the two stradums of reproduction. There is actually a cline from one end to the other.



As I have mentioned so many times. Field biologists make very odd decisions. For instance, they tend to pick what they think are normal undisturbed populations and call those normal. The problem is, a saturated population is made up of older larger individuals and is at its lowest need to recruit, the population is filled. While this is interesting, its not what the animals are designed to do. They are designed to recruit after major interruptions. Like floods, or fires, or global warming or cooling(they have been thru that stuff U know) ITs at this time that reptiles are exhibiting their potential.



Which is the part that Tom and I are talking about, as they monitors are mass collected out of these areas, they are reacting by mass producing. As long as they keep collecting the area, it will produce massive numbers, but as soon as they stop, the area will saturate and recruitment will slow way down. Think about that, its fun. Cheers





When Tom mentioned the 2 different reproduction methods with basically the same number of survivors, but higher/lower percentages, I quickly thought of the plight of the sea turtle. That has always astonished me and I was able then to see ya'll's point.



Now, you speak of recruiting, which threw me off at first because I was trying to figure out why savs would be going into other neighborhoods recruiting (calling to join forces) other savs. Hahahaha!!! What can I say, I'm a hillbilly, and I was tired. Hahahaha!!!



OK, so how do they actually control their reproduction? Do they not mate as often? I'm getting a picture of older male savs chasing away the young bucks and keeping 'em in line, under control, but the older males are getting too fat & sassy to care about mating anymore. However, they won't let the younguns do it, either. Right or wrong?



Do they actually control their mating drive? Do they, can they, control the number of eggs they produce?



I understand what Tom said about the farmers have created prime breeding grounds, conditions (I think you said something about it, too) but I still can't see how the savs control it, other than just trying to keep their women barefoot & pregnant.



I'm dog-tired so I hope I'm making sense here. If not, just ignore this post & I'll try again later today. Hahahaha!!! I've been up most of the night dismantling my kitchen cabinets (ground level cabinets) because I saw my escaped 4ft anery/motley corn go under it. Sneaky snake!



Later!

HH
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this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:

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