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Mr Himms
03-29-13, 06:27 AM
Thanks for your time[/B]:bouncy:
Pirarucu
03-29-13, 08:58 AM
Pretty Croc Monitor, I love Meraukes. Shame it's not yours.

6-foot lizard invades elementary school playground in Mississippi | al.com (http://blog.al.com/live/2009/09/6_foot_lizard_elementary_school.html)
DiscoPat
03-29-13, 09:05 AM
Pretty Croc Monitor, I love Meraukes. Shame it's not yours.

6-foot lizard invades elementary school playground in Mississippi | al.com (http://blog.al.com/live/2009/09/6_foot_lizard_elementary_school.html)

On a side note it is funny how that is considered a 6 foot lizard. I am sure tail and all it is 6 feet, but I hear 6 feet and I picture a large asian water monitor or a perentie.
smy_749
03-29-13, 09:08 AM
What is the point of this?
Pirarucu
03-29-13, 09:08 AM
Yep, crocs have one heck of a tail.
Aanayab1
03-29-13, 09:10 AM
What is the point of this?


BAHAHAHAHAHA I'm a bit thrown off as well?
poison123
03-29-13, 09:13 AM
What is the point of this?

Its a scam.
stephanbakir
03-29-13, 09:27 AM
"Animal Control darted the lizard, which Klein said can grow up to 14 feet long," Yeh... ok..
jarich
03-29-13, 09:34 AM
The more disturbing part is that someone let a croc monitor loose. I really hate the fact that any idiot can purchase such large monitors so simply.
Pirarucu
03-29-13, 09:47 AM
Agreed, Jarich.. Government regulations aren't the answer of course, but we need to police ourselves...

Stephan, actually I believe they can grow to those sizes... It isn't the norm of course, and most of it is tail length, but I would believe that they could grow that large.
infernalis
03-29-13, 10:29 AM
The more disturbing part is that someone let a croc monitor loose. I really hate the fact that any idiot can purchase such large monitors so simply.

Bingo..!...:(
stephanbakir
03-29-13, 12:39 PM
Do scams like this lead to an autoban?
Lankyrob
03-29-13, 02:37 PM
Do scams like this lead to an autoban?

I thought posting others pictures and claiming them as your own was an automatic ban too?
Donnie
03-29-13, 02:54 PM
Pretty sure this was on RFUK earlier as well, minus the picture. Maybe they didn't have a picture of their own two and used that one instead forgetting to credit the original source........ maybe not
MDT
03-29-13, 03:04 PM
but..but..but...they have *all* of their toes....
infernalis
03-29-13, 04:55 PM
What is the point of this?

I ended it, poster banned.
crocdoc
03-30-13, 06:18 PM
Stephan, actually I believe they can grow to those sizes... It isn't the norm of course, and most of it is tail length, but I would believe that they could grow that large.

Stephan is correct. Although the '14 feet' is often quoted, there is no reliable record of one exceeding 10 feet.
smy_749
03-30-13, 06:21 PM
What is the largest recorded komodo?
Pirarucu
03-30-13, 09:35 PM
Stephan is correct. Although the '14 feet' is often quoted, there is no reliable record of one exceeding 10 feet.I thought the record was twelve feet? Maybe that's where the "reliable" part of it comes in.. LOL.
crocdoc
03-30-13, 09:38 PM
As far as I know, the largest Komodo dragon was 3m, perhaps a bit more. Around 10 feet.

The record for longest monitor was apparently a Sri Lankan water monitor that was a bit over 3m. It would have been much smaller than a large Komodo, though, because of the tail/body ratios of those two species.
smy_749
03-30-13, 09:44 PM
I thought the record was twelve feet? Maybe that's where the "reliable" part of it comes in.. LOL.

I'm sure somewhere deep in the jungle there is a Shaquille Oneal version of a salvadorii or komodo that shatters all previous records. Record breaking lengths for reptiles is always exciting news to me, like that salt water croc recently which I believed passed away after being taken into captivity :-/


http://img2-3.timeinc.net/people/i/2011/news/110829/shaq-1-300.jpg
crocdoc
03-30-13, 09:49 PM
That saltwater crocodile is a good example. It was well within the expected maximum length for saltwater crocodiles. It was a record in that, while it was still alive, it was the largest in captivity, but it wasn't the maximum sized saltwater crocodile ever found.

However, at 6.1m it was also well short of the '8m' often claimed maximum length. It was the equivalent of a 3m croc monitor, whereas the 8m claimed maximum would be the equivalent of the claims of 14 foot croc monitors.
philipniceguy
04-01-13, 02:59 PM
i'm yet to see a croc monitor over 9ft but then again i not seen that many 100% under 20