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Re: Snakehunting

Postby Dispholidus » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:17 am

To produce antivenom
Snakes caring for me:

0.1 Boaedon capensis (Brown house snake)
1.0 Lycodonomorphus inornatus (Olive ground snake)
1.0 Pseudaspis cana (Mole snake)
1.1 Dispholidus typus (Boomslang)
0.1 Naja annulifera (Snouted cobra)
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Re: Snakehunting

Postby jka » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:36 am

To produce anti venom and medical studies and other scientic studies done on the how venom differ between localities etc!
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Re: Snakehunting

Postby kinghero » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:41 am

That’s what I thought, surly the people that studies and makes anti venom, would care more for the animal than to deal with the B@stards that doesn’t care and will sell anything, cause my thinking is bay a good snake and you can milk him for years appose to having to replace after ever 3 milking? Or am I being naïve?
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Re: Snakehunting

Postby boing » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:07 am

jka wrote:Habitat conservation is the way forward. What does it help if the specie is only seen in captivity he is ecologically dead.

I agree. There is some place for captive breeding in a conservation sense, but it must be as part of a re-introduction program and very strict guidelines are in place for those kind of programs. I would suspect that any animal which cannot be traced back to its wild origin accurately would not be eligible for release, especially in a industry/community where there is a lot of breeding between animals from different areas or even close relatives to breed out recessive traits. I am not saying there is not a place for this kind of breeding, just that it has no value in a conservation-orientated breeding program, aimed at re-introduction.
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Re: Snakehunting

Postby jka » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:36 am

boing wrote:
jka wrote:Habitat conservation is the way forward. What does it help if the specie is only seen in captivity he is ecologically dead.

I agree. There is some place for captive breeding in a conservation sense, but it must be as part of a re-introduction program and very strict guidelines are in place for those kind of programs. I would suspect that any animal which cannot be traced back to its wild origin accurately would not be eligible for release, especially in a industry/community where there is a lot of breeding between animals from different areas or even close relatives to breed out recessive traits. I am not saying there is not a place for this kind of breeding, just that it has no value in a conservation-orientated breeding program, aimed at re-introduction.


I fully agree with boing.

What good is it if you have a few specimens but the habitat is destroyed. I don't want to "see" the animals behind glass or in tubs I want to see them in the wild as it should be.
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