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Komodo Dragons Anonymous
Anon is a zookeeper and wanted to share with his fellow /an/archists the awesomeness that is our new baby komodo dragons!
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
How are their temperament?
>> Anonymous
I knew a kid in highschool who actually had one in his basement.
>> Anonymous
>>143244
do they really taste licke chicken?
>> Anonymous
actually, more like pork.


Teperament is just fine, although the adults are pretty amiable too, despite what you may have heard about them. They are 2 weeks old right now, and about 8 inches long - eventually they'll be 8 feet. Right now they are enjoying eating eggs (om-nom-nom-nom-nom) and crickets, and will move up to mice before too long. The adults get rats and chickens.
>> Anonymous
>>143244
>>143245
>>143247
Doesn't really look like a Komodo Dragon to me. More like some other monitor lizard. Huh...
>> Anonymous
>>143260
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck..

Wtf!?! DUCKS CAN TALK?! That's CRAZY!

I'm Brian Fellows!
>> Anonymous
>>143264
Hi, Brian. Btw, what did that have to do with anything? On another note, two cupcakes were in the oven. One says "Phew! Sure is hot in here." and the other replies "WTF, a talking cupcake!?"
>> Anonymous
OP here again - not fucking monitors, but komodo dragons, the colours are much more vivid when they are young (helps them blend in when they spend their first few years in trees, living on eggs, bugs, other lizards, until they are large enough to go back to living on the ground without other komodos predating on them).

What the fuck would i know? I only fucking work with them. FGSFDS
>> Guodzilla
We have dragons here in DC at the Nat'l Zoo...Babies do look like other monitors for a while (patterning, size, etc) but not for long.
>> Anonymous
>>143276
>>143300
Alright, alright. I guess it was just a severe case of Internet cynicism. It's just that you mostly see the grey gargantuans, not wee little scuttlers that look like any lizard.
Btw, "predating" had me confused for a second. ("What, like, happened before them? Um...") I do believe you meant "preying".
>> Anonymous
>>143244

"HEY ASSHOLE! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP HERE!!!"
>> Anonymous
>>143244

BEHOLD! THE SECOND COMING OF OUR MESSIAH

RAPTOR JESUS IS REBORN (rehatched?)
>> Anonymous
Wow, that's a beautiful lizard. It really looks like a baby dinosaur. It's only a tiny baby and it's already way bigger looking than my bearded dragon. It must be cool working at a zoo.
>> Anonymous
IM A ZOOKEEPER TOO
>> Anonymous
MOAR BABY DINOSAURS
>> Anonymous
>>143356
HAIL RAPTORJESUS, SCION OF THE FLING SPAGHETTI MONSTER COME TO LIFT THE RIGHTEOUS TO HEAVEN, WHERE THERE IS A BEER VOLCANO AND A STRIPPER FACTORY!
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKxItWuFf4
>> Anonymous
>>143388
Dental Spam!
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>> Anonymous
>>143276

Uh. Fail.

V. Komodoensis IS a monitor. Just a really, really expensive one not available to the general public.

So, what zoo do you work at, exactly? No one in the wonderful world of Varanid breeding has mentioned any zoos with fresh CB Komodo Monitors lately...
>> Anonymous
Reminds me of Jurassic Park...
>> Anonymous
OMG THEY'RE SO CUTE!!
But
My only complaint:
Why are you feeding the little ones Hard Boiled Eggs?
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Where are they going to find hard boiled eggs naturally in the wild, just feed them regular eggs.
>> Anonymous
If it bites your ass will you rot from the inside out and die?
>> ?
rawr
>> Anonymous
>>143503
Most zoos [and general Varanid keepers] with no fucking clue offer hard-boiled eggs because it's easy. Chicken eggs really aren't good for ANY monitor, but they're far easier and cheaper to come across than, say, the finch eggs I give my Blue Tree monitor, or the dove eggs my tegu and Blue-Tail monitor are so fond of.

Fucking cheap keepers...
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
ITT same poster.
Adorable dragons though.
>> Anonymous
Will you keep us updated as they grow up?
>> Anonymous
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draggin loev eggses
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>144073
not as much as he loevs fishez
>> Anonymous
>>143363
You've got the wrong branch of Reptilia; you want Archosauria, down the other corridor.
>> Anonymous
I still wanna' know what fucking zoo OP works at.

And how old the parent animals were. Incubation temps/time period/Humidity levels.

You know. The stuff someone who works with these Varanids should be able to tell me.

Without answers, I think OP is full of shit about both being a zookeeper and about said zoo breeding V. Komodoensis.

...

Yes, Varanid keepers are sceptical of everyone and everything. Stfu.
>> Anonymous
>>144165
You don't really wanna go there. The place is full of feathers.
>> Anonymous
OP here.

the hard boiled eggs? not my choice - agreed, it is not an ideal situation.

eat = eating
swim = swimming

therefore:

predate = predation (taking part in the act of predation).

English motherfucker: do you speak it?

I appreciate you are unwilling to believe, but lurk moar in "the wonderful world of varanid breding" fuckhole - you will see that one zoo (hint: in the southern US) has hatched three komodos this year (with 6 more on their way hopefully). I have nothing to prove fucker. Press release was issued friday. Enjoy your shitty domestic lizards while OP works with these guys. Also, shove your dove eggs in your fucking pooper.

honestly, i don't know why i bother.
>> Anonymous
This thread is full of lol.
>> Anonymous
lol ITT: internet tough guys