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jan j
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 Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: Varanus beccari |
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Hello 
I need some help 
I just want to know if Varanus beccari from ´99 and ´01 still will be able to breed ??
Is this animals to old ??
If any off you have a total care sheed for this spec. i will be happy to get it - cant find any on the internet
Regards
Jan j.
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K. Jensen
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Hey.
try :www.treemonitors.com |
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thomas mcpherson
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| should lay a couple eggs but not much |
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arborgoanna
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| thomas mcpherson wrote: | | should lay a couple eggs but not much |
I am not sure how you can come to this sort of conclusion, especially without knowing the history of the particular animals. Varanids have been documented to live fairly long lives in captivity, even into their 20s in some instances.
Females are born with all of the eggs they will ever need throughout their life(hundreds, perhaps even thousands). If this particular female hasn't layed hundreds of clutches in her 7 or so year lifetime, there is no reason to believe that she's only got 'a couple of eggs' remaining. Female reptiles will produce offspring up until the time of their death (a vast difference between them and human females, who cease their reproductive ability at menopause). Of course in the wild, there are limitations which accompany old age, which subsequently decreases reproductive fitness. In captivity, most of these limitations do not exist, and reproductive fitness is irrelevant.
My adult female V. macraei, was part of the original shipment of V. macraei into the United States, just prior to V. macraei's official description, in 2001. She was imported a full-grown adult at that time (suggesting that she was already several years in age), and to this day, she still remains fertile, having produced 8 subsequent clutches to date while in my collection.
Even with extreme multiclutching in capivity, I do not see a female monitor 'running out' of eggs in her lifetime. I would not worry about 7 or 8 year old individuals, as they are still well within their reproductive prime.
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