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RE: Okay let me get this right....

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Posted by: masonmonitors at Fri Sep 23 02:57:36 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by masonmonitors ]  
   

It's not like I read one book and went off lawdy daw and bought three monitors. I took time to do my research, and varied options and opinions. While yes, his data was collected only from the Ghana regions, it is data nonetheless more than any other data that we have on Savannahs. And if you read the study on the data actually collected, orthopterans(locusts and crickets) were the primary prey food found in flushed systems of juvenile Savannahs, coleopterans(millipedes) were a much smaller percentage of the prey items found in the flushed systems and fecal matter of the Savannahs. Coleopterans were simply important because they took up the main portion of their diet during earlier winter seasons. As I said, and did answer, I doubt it matters the monitor which invertebrate it eats - whether it's blaptica dubia or some myriapod species. Therefore, if I can produce a crawdad more capably than a giant african land snail, I will do so. Crayfish are a low fat, high protein meal, good for a healthy relay of energy. As for Frank's question, I would have no idea how to answer it, because it has no relevance to the topic. Frank failed to explain to me why elevation should affect the likelihood of brumation for a Savannah monitor, when it shows no adverse affects in the ability for any other reptile to brumate. If it can be explained to me why it matters what the elevation is of California as compared to Africa, I would gladly admit I'm wrong. What about all the questions of mine that FR and other posters failed to answer? Would you care to go back through every post and answer those questions for me? This whole elevation thing really seemed like a feeble attempt to spin off what the topic was originally and more importantly about.

   

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