on 1/7/01 5:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I measured the two geckos using Steve's method of nose to vent: The
>> female is about 4 1/2" and weighs 1 pound 2 oz. The male is about 4 1/4"
>> and weighs 1 pound 1 oz.
1 pound? are you including the weight of a cage or something or did you put
the animal loose on the scale?
Let's think about this. it takes 4 sticks of butter, each about 4 inches
long, to equal one pound. Is that how big around your leopard geckos are...
4 sticks of butter stuck together? (granted, bone does weigh a bit more
than butter... as does muscle... but still...)
or maybe these are leopard tortoises. ;-)
pounds just seems like a lot of weight for a leopard gecko. I suppose it is
possible if they are really plump and extremely large. But I suspect my box
turtle doesn't weigh much more than that. My tokay might be close though,
but I've never weighed him.
I've never weighed my captives before. Is this something a lot of folks do?
I've weighed many things in the wild. But never bothered for captives. I
don't even weigh myself.
Greg
--
Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
Dept. of Biology
Sacred Heart University
5151 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06432
and
Yale Peabody Museum
Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
170 Whitney Ave
PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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