VD's Varanid thread

Ceratodromeus Senior Member Rank 1 Crotalinae & Varanidae Posts: 1,544	VD's Varanid thread May 7, 2020 20:42:38 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ceratodromeus on May 7, 2020 20:42:38 GMT 5 Ora predation on a macaque, poor monkey indeed.
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Ceratodromeus Senior Member Rank 1 Crotalinae & Varanidae Posts: 1,544	VD's Varanid thread May 13, 2020 22:43:19 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ceratodromeus on May 13, 2020 22:43:19 GMT 5

kekistani Member Posts: 589	VD's Varanid thread May 13, 2020 23:24:44 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kekistani on May 13, 2020 23:24:44 GMT 5 May 13, 2020 22:43:19 GMT 5 Ceratodromeus said: Bloody christ...not a way i'd like to go

6f5e4d Member Posts: 417	VD's Varanid thread May 20, 2020 8:52:12 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 6f5e4d on May 20, 2020 8:52:12 GMT 5 The boar was lucky it got away, the Komodo dragons were eating it alive akin to hyenas.

Ceratodromeus Senior Member Rank 1 Crotalinae & Varanidae Posts: 1,544	VD's Varanid thread May 25, 2020 10:31:19 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ceratodromeus on May 25, 2020 10:31:19 GMT 5 probably didnt get away for long

Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread May 31, 2020 11:05:32 GMT 5 Ceratodromeus likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on May 31, 2020 11:05:32 GMT 5 Back from the dead *****es, and I got lots of hardcore komodo videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bIXk_DiChg&t=4s www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHqkG4U8UU8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0OAPe5mho

Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread Jun 12, 2020 21:18:18 GMT 5 Infinity Blade likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Jun 12, 2020 21:18:18 GMT 5

Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread Jun 17, 2020 4:54:11 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Jun 17, 2020 4:54:11 GMT 5

Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread Jun 17, 2020 4:57:30 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Jun 17, 2020 4:57:30 GMT 5

Ceratodromeus Senior Member Rank 1 Crotalinae & Varanidae Posts: 1,544	VD's Varanid thread Aug 4, 2020 8:16:12 GMT 5 Infinity Blade and lethocerus like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ceratodromeus on Aug 4, 2020 8:16:12 GMT 5

Ceratodromeus Senior Member Rank 1 Crotalinae & Varanidae Posts: 1,544	VD's Varanid thread Oct 2, 2020 1:28:12 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ceratodromeus on Oct 2, 2020 1:28:12 GMT 5 A perentie preying on a sizable brown snake.

Infinity Blade Global Moderator The fossil record tells us "What you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be." Posts: 7,846	VD's Varanid thread Nov 25, 2020 3:31:22 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 25, 2020 3:31:22 GMT 5 source->
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Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread Dec 16, 2020 7:28:13 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Dec 16, 2020 7:28:13 GMT 5 Komodos and boar feeding on what is probably a deer.

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VD's Varanid thread Dec 27, 2020 23:42:18 GMT 5

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Ecosystem engineering by deep‐nesting monitor lizards

As the current biodiversity crisis approaches levels comparable to the rates of the five historical mass extinctions, increasing attention has focused on how to stop or slow species loss and preserve ecosystem function. The impact of the loss of an individual species on communities and ecosystems is heterogeneous, however. Removing some species has negligible effects while the removal of others can be catastrophic. Metaphorically, the scenario can be likened to Jenga, a popular block‐balancing game in which players build a tower of wooden pieces, analogous to a dynamic ecosystem (de Ruiter et al. 2005).

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3271

This paper has gone through full peer review and was accepted for publication, but is still undergoing some processes.

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"Let every creature go for broke and sing
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing"

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Supercommunist Senior Member Rank 1 Posts: 1,859	VD's Varanid thread Dec 30, 2020 2:26:20 GMT 5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Supercommunist on Dec 30, 2020 2:26:20 GMT 5 Komodos eating boar:

theropod: Yes. Shit. I don’t think the free world had any real plan B or contingency for the worst case scenario that has apparently ended up happening. Things were bad enough as it is, and nobody really has any capacity left to deal with it getting even shittier. Nov 6, 2024 19:38:01 GMT 5

Infinity Blade: I imagine tyrannosaurs having finesse through their premaxillary teeth. We know they could delicately scrape meat off of bones with those if they wanted to. Aug 28, 2024 1:29:55 GMT 5

Supercommunist: Anyone find it kind of weird how some people portay gigantosaurus as a finese predator compared to a tyrannosaurus? Given that tyrannosaurus had the smaller gape and the duller teeth, wouldn't it require more precision? Aug 27, 2024 23:49:00 GMT 5