Just yesterday, one of our members posted a video I have added below. It is not in English, but you can see the report on a large group of Indian Stars that were confiscated from smugglers and held at a temple park until they could be sent to a conservation center.
Some of these stars are really big! Much bigger than any reference ever says an Indian Star can attain. These are stars from the northern end of their eastern India range - (Andhra Pradesh) . I have certainly heard of "larger" stars in the northwest (Gujarat) but these are huge!
By actual measurement of a captive specimen that is a breeding male that he says is not unusual, he reports it over 11" and 3789g. Many of the stars in this video are said to be (and certainly look) well over 15"
So how big do stars really get?? If this is so common to the locals in this area, why does none of the "scientific community" seem to know about it??
@kingsley @Tom @Neal @zovick @Sterant @8james8 @HermanniChris
Some of these stars are really big! Much bigger than any reference ever says an Indian Star can attain. These are stars from the northern end of their eastern India range - (Andhra Pradesh) . I have certainly heard of "larger" stars in the northwest (Gujarat) but these are huge!
By actual measurement of a captive specimen that is a breeding male that he says is not unusual, he reports it over 11" and 3789g. Many of the stars in this video are said to be (and certainly look) well over 15"
So how big do stars really get?? If this is so common to the locals in this area, why does none of the "scientific community" seem to know about it??
@kingsley @Tom @Neal @zovick @Sterant @8james8 @HermanniChris