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Rtdunham
at Thu Nov 3 22:49:06 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rtdunham ]
--in my experience snakes in the wild don't go roaming for exercise to burn off a meal, they retreat to a safe place and sit to digest it, because with a large meal they've lost mobility and the ability to flee/fight off a predator.
--as for the observation that it might be unnatural for an organism to be digesting food constantly, isn't that what all the readers of this forum do? (not that human diets/dietary practices are ideal, but still...)
--"power feeding" is a subjective term...i define it one way, others might define it differently. To me, it's feeding aggressively to get an animal to sexual maturity in the minimal amount of time WHILE SUSTAINING HEALTH; I've seen others use the term to describe OVERfeeding. So the term has to be used carefully.
--Frequency of feeding vs size of feeding is a complicated subject. I suspect there are people on the forum who feed very large meals but at infrequent intervals, and others who feed small meals very often. And i suspect those in both camps often raise healthy and reproductively active and successful animals.
peace
terry
>>"Answer this.... What kind of life does a snake have in captivity?? In captivity they roam their enclosure if it is large enough, they hide, they drink water, they eat and they breed. What do they do in the wild?"
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>>Besides not having to dodge predators and the dangers of wandering on the freeways, we have to remember that in the wild they have what we are not able to provide for them in captivity, and that is unlimited space. That is a big difference. They are able to roam around and get way more exercise, boosting their metabolism, and burning off their meals more efficiently. I do not recall hearing about many fat and obese snakes in the wild being found. Thus this would make the difference as well between a snake being powerfed and having a limited amount of space to work it off versus a snake that is lucky enough to get a huge supply of food in the wild. So, in all, a life in captivity vs. a life in the wild can be much different.
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>>Genesis 1:1
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i think we're all partly right... - Rtdunham, Thu Nov 3 22:49:06 2005