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CheriS
at Sun Aug 24 12:32:08 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CheriS ]
We've been seeing this picture for 2 years now that I know of plus all the stories about them , the legend grows each time the picture is posted.
Legends:
1. The parents were bought and smuggled to Europe after the babies died
2. They supposely never ate and all died of liver failure
3. They supposely were killed by a neighbor spraying pesticides
4. They were bought by a breeder in the US, smuggled here from Australia and are being hidden
What we do know for a fact:
No report was ever made to National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia about them (the rangers will pick up and do a necropsy at no charge to determine cause of death)
All private breeders are on a registery in Australia and expected to report anything like this, including mass die offs
All private owners have to have a permit to keep bearded dragons there and they must buy from a licensed breeder (again the same thing regarding the rangers and deaths in native species)
None of the major Universities in Australia have ever seen or heard of this
No one can name the person that's suppose to have hatched them and there does not seem to have been any others if in fact those were genuine... its a rare beardie that only produces one clutch 
Its always possible that they did exist or where taken from the wild and never followed the regulations in Australia so the person who is suppose to have produced them is remaining silent.
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hard to get one when they don't exist - CheriS, Sun Aug 24 12:32:08 2003