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FR
at Fri Feb 4 10:43:26 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
I think I am going to disagree with you. First, the chances of this person being successful is slim to none. Second, its slim to none that that keeper can keep any group successfully, so this talk or thread is academic.
(nothing against that keeper, just simple numbers)
Next, to understand these animals IS TO EXPERIMENT, thats how WE LEARN. Breeding different species is far more interesting and causes us to learn far more, then breeding two of the same species. I think we all know THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO BREED. If different species do indeed successfully cross. That brings ups many many many questions that will require more thought. Are you afraid to think or question? Science is to question, not rely on religion(religion=blind faith)(not about god or gods, just blind faith in what your told)
And NEXT, what happens in captivity, is not going to effect wild monitors in anyway, except have a better understanding of them and their relationships to eachother. In otherwords, there will be no negative effects on wild poplutions.
Next, next, next, if you think anything in captivity is pure, well, you need to think about that. In captivity, there are no natural phenotypic pressures or controls. So all captive populations migrate away from natural. As we place captive phenotypic pressures on them. Such pressures as feeding on what WE feed them, and in the captive regime we keep them in. Those that survive that, are indeed, not natural. As our boxes are simply not natural and do not come close. Nature consistantly keeps a species in tune. In captivity, We have a bent tuning fork. Cheers mate
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RE: Breeding question? - FR, Fri Feb 4 10:43:26 2011