The last dragon Special - Fruit eating Monitor - Page 4

murrindindi · 02-13-13, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rakoladycz

I suspected that! :/

Hi Randy, there was a thread on the supposed successful breeding at the HC a couple of years ago, I remember Daniel challenging the poster`s information at the time.

_Varanidae_ · 02-19-13, 06:15 PM

Dallas Zoo hatched out a single offspring in 1992, but it died shortly after hatching.

infernalis · 02-19-13, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by _Varanidae_

Dallas Zoo hatched out a single offspring in 1992, but it died shortly after hatching.

Did anyone figure out why it died?

_Varanidae_ · 02-19-13, 06:41 PM

Congenital defects.

infernalis · 02-19-13, 06:54 PM

Attributed to??

varanus_mad · 02-20-13, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by infernalis

Attributed to??

My guess poor nesting. I don't have any proof as such but these congenital defects crop up more in poorly nested varanus eggs.

after all if the hatch rates were so poor in wild varanids they'd be extinct

crocdoc · 02-20-13, 03:28 PM

That's my guess as well. When I saw this thread yesterday, my first thought was that if there was only one hatchling something was amiss (most likely nesting) and that one hatchling is most likely lucky to be alive at all - having it healthy as well would be a stretch.

infernalis · 03-15-13, 06:23 AM

Apparently, their protection status is not very heavily enforced.

V87 · 03-15-13, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by infernalis

Apparently, their protection status is not very heavily enforced.

There was a report a while saying how they are now more readily a available in the trade now over in the phillipines and other islands .... They do re enforce any animal laws out there ... If I have seen the bush babie program they had on the beeb the illegal sellers openly do it in front of the law but give back ganders to the police or law enforcements ... We have a guy out in Vietnam trying to stop illegal trafficking of animals live and parts but the laws over there a mental and they usually have to bribe officials in order to confiscate animals and go through the courts by that time it's to late ... He has seem thousands of monitors illegally sold and traded .... It's f in horrendous ....