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SHvar
at Mon Sep 19 23:52:39 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by SHvar ]
To Captive monitors, in the wild they eat what is available to eat, most abundant with the least effort to obtain and the highest return for that effort. In captivity we strive to give them a complete diet, more nutritious, and better without the problems of the wild, here they dont have to adapt.
In some areas many species eat one type of food or mostly one type, but their conterparts in another area eat a different diet, why, as I said, the food supply determines what they eat not their choice, what they are stuck with. Why do albigs in some areas eat mostly snails, yet in many areas they eat alot of songbirds, tree nesting birds, ground nesting birds, and some eat mostly reptiles such as cobras, puff adders, gaboons etc, they are eating what is available with the biggest return and the smallest effort. Rodents are mostly nocturnal, they dont eat too many in the wild for this reason.
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No doubt, but as I said you cannot compare wild monitors in nature - SHvar, Mon Sep 19 23:52:39 2005