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Posted by JoeM on October 30, 2001 at 09:43:27:
In Reply to: Re:I do wholeheartedly not agree .... posted by Ingo on October 30, 2001 at 08:43:27:
I'll have some photos up tomorrow. Judge for yourself. Sometimes mother nature can be surprisingly versitile. Incidentally, I have had iguanas, and Basilisks are smarter and more trainable - if you are patient, start with a young animal, and go slow. There ARE creatures which can NOT be tamed (at least, not by me). Goldfish, frogs, insects, and alligator snapping turtles, for example. But basilisks can be tamed and adapted to live in our world. Does this adaption cause a shift in their "natural behavior?" Of course! But that is good, not bad. Let's assume that destruction of natural habitat does not suddenly come to a screeching halt within the next several decades. Which animals will be happier; basilisks locked up in psuedo-replicas of a vanishing habitat who are taught no new survival skills, or animals who can be incorporated into a household as a psuedo- member of a human family? Wild wolves have survived so far because the North American continent and northern Eurasia covers a pretty big area. (Wild cyotes have survived and increased in number BECAUSE they adapted to civilization and learned to use civilization to their advantage.) Green basilisks have a much smaller area to hinge their futures on. Frankly, I like these guys and I would not shed a tear if every household in the civilized world had one as a pet. Should the day come when we were encouraged to neuter our basilisks, like we are encouraged to neuter our cats, because green basilisks have out-propigated themselves and there became too many of them in the world, I would be delighted. But that is my personal viewpoint--that assimilation and adaption can be very good things.
