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12-05-12, 01:45 PM
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Re: Raw meat
Anyway, rotting carrion is a treat most monitors won't pass up.
Most monitor lizards are even immune to snake venom, and in the wild will eat cobras, mambas, brown snakes, and whatever other assorted snacks wander into range.
Savannah Monitors are known to eat scorpions and giant African millipedes, animals that are toxic to almost every other life form.
However, sadly, the Australian species are falling to the common cane toad.
How sad is that, The mighty Perentie can devour the worlds deadliest snake, but is poisoned by a frigging toad!
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12-05-12, 03:11 PM
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Re: Raw meat
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Originally Posted by infernalis
Most monitor lizards are even immune to snake venom, and in the wild will eat cobras, mambas, brown snakes, and whatever other assorted snacks wander into range.
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ingested snake venom, don't go sticking a viper in with your water monitor.
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However, sadly, the Australian species are falling to the common cane toad.
How sad is that, The mighty Perentie can devour the worlds deadliest snake, but is poisoned by a frigging toad!
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Evolution is an extraordinary (and heartless) thing isn't it? Because the Perentie never encountered Cane Toads as it evolved, it never built up an immunity to the toxin like species over here that encounter them frequently did.
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12-05-12, 03:16 PM
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Re: Raw meat
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Evolution is an extraordinary (and heartless) thing isn't it? Because the Perentie never encountered Cane Toads as it evolved, it never built up an immunity to the toxin like species over here that encounter them frequently did.
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Exactly... There were no toads in Australia at all, so the native animals cannot eat toads.
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12-05-12, 07:14 PM
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Re: Raw meat
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Is it really possible to get rabies from roadkill? As a matter of fact is it possible for reptiles to get rabies?
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Reptiles cannot get rabies, but if you've been handling a bloody carcass infected with rabies, I'm positive you can contract the virus.
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12-05-12, 07:36 PM
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Re: Raw meat
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Originally Posted by infernalis
Most monitor lizards are even immune to snake venom, and in the wild will eat cobras, mambas, brown snakes, and whatever other assorted snacks wander into range.
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Is it bad that all I can think about is the honey badger video? >.>
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