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lilyfarfalla's pet mouse lemur, pictured here:
see? how can you blame such an innocent? which also turns out to be an evil,
cannibalistic predator that will nibble on your toes in your sleep! eep!
RUN RODNEY RUN.
um. anyway.
lilyfarfalla's pet mouse lemur, pictured here:see? how can you blame such an innocent? which also turns out to be an evil,
cannibalistic predator that will nibble on your toes in your sleep! eep!
RUN RODNEY RUN.
um. anyway.
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Date: 2012-07-07 09:41 pm (UTC)>;-)
Reminds me somewhat of this little guy I posted not long ago
Mind you, not same creature but. . .
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Date: 2012-07-07 10:28 pm (UTC)(I like your little guy, though. :)
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Date: 2012-07-08 12:28 am (UTC)Tell me you're kidding
That is like curling up with a hyena which hasn't been fed in days.........
This reminds me of a program called Fatal Attraction on Animal Planet.
A man had FIVE, count them, FIVE Komodo lizards which lived with him in an apartment, a tiny one bedroom apartment.
They were ALL cage free.
He had shown the guys at work bites he had sustained from them, but sloughed it off as no big deal even though the guys urged him to go to ER for treatment. He believed he could
build up an immunity against the deadly venom.
There was a long weekend. Monday morning he failed to show for work.
Then Tuesday rolled around.......no sign of him
Finally somebody called 911 due to foul odor coming from a first floor apartment in the complex.
When the police arrived they knocked. No answer.
They too could smell it and were certain it was human remains.
The fire department arrived and broke the door in and found what was left of him propped up against a wall in the living room. (The hands were gone. The stomach and intestinal cavity had been cleaned out and most of his face was missing.)
When they entered they were shocked by the size and number of the lizards and of course had to immediately put them down.
They put what remained of him in a body bag. Later they determined, although it was difficult due to the extreme condition of the remains, that he was apparently bitten by one of the lizards and they just did what a Komodo will do. It bites delivering the venom and then quietly waits for its prey to drop and then finishes it off at leisure.
I don't think people think before they buy or they are so arrogant as to believe "Oh I know all of THAT, BUT I can make the difference."
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Date: 2012-07-08 01:34 am (UTC)Komodos don't have venom, though, just a bacterial mush resulting from horrible gingivitis in their mouths that is so deadly that you essentially get gangrene if you're bitten. the guy was a total Darwin Award winner.
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Date: 2012-07-08 02:03 am (UTC)finished him off.
I mean who would know what had happened since he lived a reclusive life..........
I don't think there should be casual ownership of certain creatures
That show is something else........sad thing is they all feel somewhat super human whatever and end up paying a price for it
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Date: 2012-07-08 02:02 am (UTC)How this moron thought he could build up a resistance to them (or, indeed, any possible venom) is mind-boggling, especially as he was intending to do it, not under controlled lab conditions and a doctor's supervision but alone (in the non-reptilian sense) in his home. He might just as well have tried to build up a tolerance for bubonic plague. Or knife wounds. Once again, Darwin is vindicated. Sadly, the animals paid for the human's stupidity ... as per usual.
Of course, none of the folks on that show are overly logically blessed. Remember Antoine, the guy who raised a tiger in his New York apartment and got the hell bitten out of him for his troubles? (And who wants to regain possession of his baby as soon as he can.) He was quoted as saying, "“Ironically we were both placed in cages for the first time," following his arrest. I guess he doesn't consider that Ming - who would be roaming around a JUNGLE in a better world - had been in a cage his entire life. Logic is not for everyone. :D
Re: komodo venom
Date: 2012-07-08 02:18 am (UTC)She was self taught.
Initially she had them housed in them cages but often took them out to 'work with them'. . .
She had somehow acquired some of the most deadly snakes in the world.......other she regularly picked up during hikes in the area.
Among the 20 that she had was a Black Mamba, a Taipan, a Horned Viper and a Bushmaster, and a Cobra (much like we encountered
when we lived in Taiwan in an hillside area) etc.
I find it all so amazing that THEY have the answer. I mean nobody else who handles them regularly does, but THEY alone do
'Died of acute stupidity' should be noted on the ME form.
Re: komodo venom
Date: 2012-07-08 02:46 am (UTC)I don't think the ME is allowed to do that, but you know that thought came up.
Re: komodo venom
Date: 2012-07-08 03:07 am (UTC)individuals who are missing something deep in their souls.
Perhaps their lack of self worth and a desire to be in control of something ends has brought about their demise.
Sad when one contemplates it.
"I don't think the ME is allowed to do that, but you know that thought came up."
It was inappropriate in proposing that, but so often I see something and think 'acute stupidity is what actually killed him/her'
In this case taking on wild animals and thinking 'I can do what others cannot or have not done.'
There are just so many cases which prove that theory is flawed.
Re: komodo venom
Date: 2012-07-08 03:56 am (UTC)But this is why I like writing about John Sheppard? :D
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Date: 2012-07-07 11:08 pm (UTC)right, it just *starts* in the extremities...altho I have to say, "nibbled to death by lemurs" is not a bad obit.
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Date: 2012-07-07 11:17 pm (UTC)Instead of Trouble with Tribbles, SGA could have Linguistic Nightmares with Lemurs!
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Date: 2012-07-08 05:15 am (UTC)Rodney's quick thinking and apparent love of big golden eyes saves them all from destruction!
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Date: 2012-07-08 12:45 am (UTC)My cat looked like that from behind. When you saw front though she had white whiskers, a tiny white diamond on her chest and tips of her paws were white
Looked a lot like my icon
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Date: 2012-07-08 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-08 01:17 am (UTC)her ears would flick also. . .
>;-)
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