New Fruit Eating Monitor Species Discovered

[beardielover17]

pretty cool if you ask me http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100407104032.htm

 

[ladyknite]

who's up for a trip to Sierra Madres

 

[beardielover17]

ME ME ME ME ME!!! *jumps up and down frantically*

 

[ladyknite]

I'd love to see that. But it's a important source of protein for indigenous people in Isabella and Aurora Provinces? They eat it? gad zooks

 

[beardielover17]

We should find a better source of protein for them

 

[zebraflavencs]

How about some genetically HUGE dubias ?
Daaaaang that's just amazing... 3 meters ?
Janie

 

[beardielover17]

How about some genetically HUGE dubias ?
Daaaaang that's just amazing... 3 meters ?
Janie

lol now that's an idea janie! I've been doing some readings on monitors today and i came across an article on extinct species too that dwarf even the komodo dragon and that the komodo dragon evolved in australia and then spread into indonesia

 

[zebraflavencs]

Can you email me that article on the extinct species, Candice.. I'd love to read that !
Hey, you know me and my dubias
Janie

 

[beardielover17]

Can you email me that article on the extinct species, Candice.. I'd love to read that !
Hey, you know me and my dubias
Janie

sure thing! i can post it up on here too...its on a website not a forum so i wouldnt be violating rules

 

[beardielover17]

here's the article...its mainly on komodos but it touches upon the extinct species too http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090929203027.htm

 

[ladyknite]

Janie,
You wanna feed people roaches? I lived in that area of the world once. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww is all i have to say

rofl

 

[zebraflavencs]

Sure Gina... People eat honey ants, maggots and other insects... why not something like the mads and the dubias ?
I'll have mine grilled please, with mush rooms and squash on a bed of pilaf...
*snorts*.
Candice, two very interesting and well worth posting articles indeed.....Great find !
Janie

 

[beardielover17]

thanks janie! i actually came across them on a aussie forum francis recommended to me

 

[zebraflavencs]

Ahhh I wondered if Francis didn't have a hand in those articles ....
Janie

 

[ladyknite]

Janie,
I expect you to do just that dear. lol

 

[crypticdragons]

I read about this one last night. Its quite interesting. IM fairly sure there are organizations being deployed currently to collect a number of wild specimens to try and rescue this breed of monitor from extinction (as it is currently considered to be extremely endangered). Basically this animal has the look and size of a Croc monitor without the attitude or diet (being that it is not carnivorous). I forsee this ending up in the pet trade in about 10 years or so.

 

[zebraflavencs]

Gina.. now why do I get the feeling, I'll get exactly that served to me some day in the future while visiting you ? Hmmmmm ?
I'd like some mint tea with lemon and honey to wash it all down with... And a straight face ! LOL !
Janie

 

[ladyknite]

more like Yeongji-beoseot-cha to drink. Gotta help out that natural thought process as those wonderful proteins are taken in. Might as well do it right.

 

[ladyknite]

well poop Candice. Sorry, way off topic.

Back to the MONITOR. lol

 

[zebraflavencs]

Sorry ! *watches Candice rolling on the bed watching us *
Janie