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FR
at Sun Jan 30 13:28:46 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
First, by stating what you did, you do have an opinion. Or you have said nothing.
About turkeys and chickens and such. There is only one place to gauge their intelligence, and that is where their intelligence was meant for, in their nature habitat. Wild chickens(banty, jungle fowl) are smart as heck. So are beardies(from the dumb bearded thread below) in nature. One of beardeds natural behaviors is to go cryptic, that is, lay low and do nothing. In nature, it serves them well, in captivity is makes them look dumb. Maybe the only way to measure how smart reptiles are is to measure how well they succeed. In parts of Oz,(Mt. Isa area) beardeds, V.p.vitticeps, is very successful(very abundant) But in other areas, V.p.vitticeps, is rare(south of Alice) but its there. Is it not so smart there?
To me, the smartest lizards I saw were, Lashtail lizards, the reason I say this is, They burrowed, they climbed, they ran(like a bullet)they ran across the top of the water, They swam on top of water, and underwater. They climbed trees and jumped into water, or jumped onto the land and ran off, They ran on their hindlegs or on all fours. They have a ton of behaviors to not allow being caught, and they wave at you while they are doing it. And they filled their niches very well(numerous).
About releasing captive monitors into nature. I imagine, it would be about the same as normal. Less then five percentage(aprox) of each years offspring survive in nature. The Vast majority become food for others. I imagine the same would happen if you release thousands of hatchling captive monitors. Some will survive, that is, if you put them in places they could survive. Which is the key to what wild monitors do. They put their babies where they have the best chance to survive. Thu lots and lots of generations, each population of monitor, adapts to the local conditions. With this in mind, the local individuals, do have an advantage to any non local individuals, no matter if wild or captive. That is unless, the habitat changes. Then its a grab bag, all bets are off. For instance, the marine toad, is changine what survives and what does not(in oz) There, the monitors must be reducated in order to survive. Thanks and good luck FR
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RE: Wild v/s Domesic - FR, Sun Jan 30 13:28:46 2005