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jobi
at Sun Jan 30 03:04:06 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jobi ]
Is the future of varanoculture about hormones injection and genetic alteration? Don’t get me wrong I have no issues with any of this, as it’s been don with almost all domesticated animals throughout mans history. Being a life long varanophils and witnessing trials and errors of many keepers, I cant help wondering how on earth captive monitors will benefit from this approach, just my opinion but 90% of keepers cant get there monitors to cycle simply because there husbandry is off, monitors need constant supplies! you cant just forget about them like many do with snakes, you need to keep on top of your game with heat, food, water, its pretty scary to think how many will provoke females to cycle regardless of there condition. I clearly remember how one man got treated because he multi-clutches many species, he did this only with good husbandry and common sense, without the use of drugs, yet the entire varanids world blamed him of mistreating monitors. Maybe one day it might be common practise to inject monitors as part of a regular breeding programme, who knows? I bet one day we will forget how spirited niloticus where! How horn use to stands erect! How flavis can dig out scorpions! How indicus loved water! How prasinus climbs! We will forget because they will forget how to act like monitors. When reproduction is artificial then natural stimuli are obsolete, this leading to sterile husbandry, glass, plastic, rack system, without anything to relate to! An organism loses its primer identity and changes to adapt.
Eventually we will make them to mans liking!
My problem is I like them as they are now, pure blood.
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 Is this right? - jobi, Sun Jan 30 03:04:06 2005
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