natives animals as pets? - What would you have? What would you never have? Why? (Mar/15/2009 )
swanny on Mar 17 2009, 06:01 AM said:
casandra on Mar 17 2009, 10:24 AM said:
perneseblue on Mar 16 2009, 07:12 PM said:
Ideal pet for the modern person. Need to be away for a week or a month? No problem with an Axolotl. Just keep it in the fridge at 16 C and your pet will keep till you come back.
... 16 C but that's summer temp!!! Does it have identity issues- am I a fish or a lizard? I guess no separation anxiety...where do you dig all these pernese?
16 C might be summer from your part of the world, casandra, but for me, it's the middle of winter...
Still, thinking about your bear, I'd have to feed it year-round. Good thing I know where there's a huge supply of undergraduates...
alot of people have axoltl in this country... they make great pets but you can only get them in pink and black
When i was a kid we had a number of these:
Very cute and if you handle them often there's no fear of getting bitten!
Kami23 on Mar 17 2009, 03:58 AM said:
As pluck genetic engineers, this challenge must be answered. Starting with an albino strain of axoltls, we should introduce pathways for pigment production. Every colour of the rainbow, including fluorescence.
swanny on Mar 17 2009, 02:01 AM said:
Still, thinking about your bear, I'd have to feed it year-round. Good thing I know where there's a huge supply of undergraduates...
And don't forget that it likes to play with its food....we have to teach it some proper table manners, really....
ps...16 degrees is called mid-winter there, eh? here it's called mid-winter for Wimps.........
...I'm just sour-graping swanny....I'll gladly exchange your mid-winter for mine... casandra on Mar 17 2009, 10:09 PM said:
swanny on Mar 17 2009, 02:01 AM said:
Still, thinking about your bear, I'd have to feed it year-round. Good thing I know where there's a huge supply of undergraduates...
And don't forget that it likes to play with its food....we have to teach it some proper table manners, really....
Take the axolotl, if you don't want it anymore you can eat it and not vice versa.
hobglobin on Mar 17 2009, 05:14 PM said:
casandra on Mar 17 2009, 10:09 PM said:
swanny on Mar 17 2009, 02:01 AM said:
Still, thinking about your bear, I'd have to feed it year-round. Good thing I know where there's a huge supply of undergraduates...
And don't forget that it likes to play with its food....we have to teach it some proper table manners, really....
Take the axolotl, if you don't want it anymore you can eat them and not vice versa.
aww....
..how can you eat your pet even out of pure scientific interest? But you've eaten your bugs, right dr H? Uh, I wondered for a long time. As a part of Europe, we don't really have endemites. Our two national symbol animals aren't useful as pets at all!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisent.jpg
This one's a HUUUGE WILD COW. If you ever go to Bialowieza, there's a restaurant where they serve wisent steaks (the population is legally regulated when a surplus of wisents is born). You can eat that. Not really soft, the meat. The animal, a very bad pet, unless you own a forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stork
This one is actually almost a pet in the countryside. Not domesticated, but it lives near humans and is believed to bring luck. So people put an old tire on the roof, and if they're lucky, a pair of storks makes a nest in the tire and comes back every spring.
But again, a bad pet, unless you own a house in the countryside.
Telomerase on Mar 17 2009, 05:51 PM said:
But again, a bad pet, unless you own a house in the countryside.
But at least they bring babies with them every year....probably one of our more famous official emblems:
tightly-tied to our history (the fur trade), they shld make good pets- highly industrious and perfect advertising tools for the orthodentists...
and we do eat their tails for fun:
casandra on Mar 18 2009, 08:09 AM said:
swanny on Mar 17 2009, 02:01 AM said:
Still, thinking about your bear, I'd have to feed it year-round. Good thing I know where there's a huge supply of undergraduates...
And don't forget that it likes to play with its food....we have to teach it some proper table manners, really....
ps...16 degrees is called mid-winter there, eh? here it's called mid-winter for Wimps.........
...I'm just sour-graping swanny....I'll gladly exchange your mid-winter for mine...Exchange, no way, but you're most welcome to visit our wonderful shores. We love visitors from the frozen wastelands of the north... You might be able to take a tour of Antipodean Bioforummers! I think there are a few of the states represented here (NSW, Queensland and Victoria at least).
Oh, here's another native animal I'd never want as a pet. The cassowary is a close relative of the emu, but it really has personality issues! Go into its territory and it's likely to charge you (top speed up to 50 km/h), knock you over (height up to 2 m, weight to 60 kg, jumps up to 1.5 m) and start kicking - and it has very serious claws (up to 13 cm long)! But check out the head-dress!
casandra on Mar 18 2009, 02:37 PM said:
Telomerase on Mar 17 2009, 05:51 PM said:
But again, a bad pet, unless you own a house in the countryside.
But at least they bring babies with them every year....probably one of our more famous official emblems:
tightly-tied to our history (the fur trade), they shld make good pets- highly industrious and perfect advertising tools for the orthodentists...
and we do eat their tails for fun:
Oooooh, so THAT'S what they mean when they talk about looking for beaver, and going for a piece of tail. I thought people were just being rude!!
