Flamingo Land Komodo Dragons at Flamingo land

zoogiraffe said:
If that is going to be your highlight all I can say is bollocks,because it will not be I could name half a dozen species of Crocs that will impress you more!
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The Komodo is one of my highlights but I am looking forward to the Black caiman,False gharial and the Nile croc feeding as well.Plus getting the chance to potentially interact with young crocodilians as well.Thanks for the input though.
 
Komodo99 said:
The Komodo is one of my highlights but I am looking forward to the Black caiman,False gharial and the Nile croc feeding as well.Plus getting the chance to potentially interact with young crocodilians as well.Thanks for the input though.
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Well I suggest you try and spot the suchus x nilocticus hybrid as well,but good luck finding it in with the rest of the Niles,as for the False Gharial they are certainly more impressive than the wonky crap you have seen at Chester.If you want to hold a croc you will more than likely have to pay to do it,but you maybe be able to touch a young American Alligator without paying.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Well I suggest you try and spot the suchus x nilocticus hybrid as well,but good luck finding it in with the rest of the Niles,as for the False Gharial they are certainly more impressive than the wonky crap you have seen at Chester.If you want to hold a croc you will more than likely have to pay to do it,but you maybe be able to touch a young American Alligator without paying.
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Do you know how much it is to hold a croc?
 
zoogiraffe said:
Ganas isn't the name he started out with,as he was one of Chesters parthenogenesis born Komodo,so he is completely useless as a breeding animal!
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My genetics is a bit rusty - why is the result of a partenogenetic birth unable to reproduce? Is it just the males? Bit of a pointless reproductive strategy, if true...
 
tetrapod said:
My genetics is a bit rusty - why is the result of a partenogenetic birth unable to reproduce? Is it just the males? Bit of a pointless reproductive strategy, if true...
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There is one lizard species that survives entirely from pathenogenesis (I think it is whip-tailed lizards but I may be wrong); so I can't see why the parthenogenic komodo is unbreedable either.
 
Water Dragon said:
There is one lizard species that survives entirely from pathenogenesis
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Multiple lizard species in several families survive entirely on parthenogenesis. However, in species that mainly reproduce sexually, animals born from parthenogenesis are often excluded from breeding programmes to avoid over-representation of their genes, as all animals from that event would be genetically identical.
 
tetrapod said:
My genetics is a bit rusty - why is the result of a partenogenetic birth unable to reproduce? Is it just the males? Bit of a pointless reproductive strategy, if true...
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Whilst it's an effective adaptation to inhabit uncolonised islands, it's not beneficial in terms of conservation breeding. All the offspring are male, and all are near-clones of the mother, which is not conducive to a diverse breeding programme. I think that's the basic gist of it.

EDIT: beaten to it!
 
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...doesn't make him "completely useless as a breeding animal" though. :cool:
 
Swampy said:
Multiple lizard species in several families survive entirely on parthenogenesis. However, in species that mainly reproduce sexually, animals born from parthenogenesis are often excluded from breeding programmes to avoid over-representation of their genes, as all animals from that event would be genetically identical.
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Correct hence why it has been recommended that they are not used to bred from.
 
I didn't want to post without double-checking as it was a couple of months since I had asked, but I got back from Flamingo Land a few hours ago where I confirmed the planned acquisition of a young Komodo Dragon has not happened. I had been told of the plan last year - the specimen was to have been housed in the current Water Monitor exhibit.
 
Parrotsandrew said:
I didn't want to post without double-checking as it was a couple of months since I had asked, but I got back from Flamingo Land a few hours ago where I confirmed the planned acquisition of a young Komodo Dragon has not happened. I had been told of the plan last year - the specimen was to have been housed in the current Water Monitor exhibit.
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is this referencing a second animal or the same one as was supposed to have come from Colchester? (i.e. is there no Komodo dragon at Flamingo Land after all?)
 
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