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immayo said:Those hets look neglected.. You should send them my way
Jacqui said:That one has an awesome carapace.
AnnV said:I love these marbles but dont know much about them. What's the deal?! Please educate me.
TommyZ said:AnnV said:I love these marbles but dont know much about them. What's the deal?! Please educate me.
Hi Ann,
The marbles are cherry head red foot tortoises. The "marbling" is those white streaks and spots that grow across the shell. As I understand it in the wild it is actually a negative thing as it makes their natural camouflage less effective and they are more likely to be preyed up on. However in captivity it is a desirable trait, stated subjectively of course.
N2TORTS said:" CHOW TIME"
Looking good "Z"man ........
mikeh said:I see the baby is still growing super smooth Tommy. Bigger every time I see a pic.
I would introduce them to Zoomed Natural Forest Tortoise Food. Old Mazuri is equivalent to junk food fortified with vitamins. Not sure about the new formula.
Actually the marbling would have a greater effect and help camouflage the animal…..TommyZ said:AnnV said:I love these marbles but dont know much about them. What's the deal?! Please educate me.
As I understand it in the wild it is actually a negative thing as it makes their natural camouflage less effective and they are more likely to be preyed up on. However in captivity it is a desirable trait, stated subjectively of course.
N2TORTS said:Actually the marbling would have a greater effect and help camouflage the animal…..TommyZ said:AnnV said:I love these marbles but dont know much about them. What's the deal?! Please educate me.
As I understand it in the wild it is actually a negative thing as it makes their natural camouflage less effective and they are more likely to be preyed up on. However in captivity it is a desirable trait, stated subjectively of course.
A scenario much like this:
“The reason for using this sort of pattern is that it is visually disruptive. The meandering lines of the mottled camouflage pattern help hide the contour -- the outline -- of the body. When you look at a piece of mottled camouflage in a matching environment, your brain naturally "connects" the lines of the colored blotches with the lines of the trees, ground, leaves and shadows. This affects the way you perceive and recognize the person or object wearing that camouflage.
Human and animal perception naturally categorizes things in the world as separate objects. When you look at a scene, you are gathering an immense amount of information with your eyes and other senses. In order for your conscious mind to make any sense out of this information, your brain has to break it down into component parts. When your brain perceives a long, vertical area of brown with green blotches connected to it, you perceive a tree. And when your brain perceives many, many individual trees in a given area, you perceive a forest.
One thing your brain is always looking for when analyzing visual information is continuity. Imagine a stack of 12 blocks. If all of the blocks are colored red, you perceive the pile as one unit. But if the bottom six blocks are red and the top six blocks are blue, you may perceive the pile as two separate units: a stack of blue blocks on top of a stack of red blocks. And if you were to randomly mix blue blocks and red blocks together, you wouldn't group them into colored units at all. Animal and humans tend to recognize something as a separate object if it has one continuous colorâ€
http://science.howstuffworks.com/military-camouflage1.htm
J~:shy:
mikeh said:I see the baby is still growing super smooth Tommy. Bigger every time I see a pic.
I would introduce them to Zoomed Natural Forest Tortoise Food. Old Mazuri is equivalent to junk food fortified with vitamins. Not sure about the new formula.