Carnegie Dilong Paradoxus

[crazycrowman]

I assure they have almost artificial looking "metallic gold" mixed with a "metallic copper" color. Some monitors have other colors too. I have seen boscs with red/yellow tinged with silver.

Its funny, I remarked when I saw the Dilong that it had nice eyes, and its neat to see something like gold rather then the typical dark eyes or yellow eyes these figures often get. The papo rex has gold eyes too.

Martha the DBT has gold eyes...


Even Spike the bearded dragon has some gold. (Those members with herps, or any pets really, check out their eyes closely)

Eye color can be amazingly variable species to species, and even individual to individual, not only in humans.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Is that a diamond back terrapin I see?!

[crazycrowman]

Mar 1, 2009 15:12:20 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

Is that a diamond back terrapin I see?!

Yeppers - She is a CB yearling

And many of them have gold eyes. But not all. They are extremely variable, and even in a single hatch you can see animals with green eyes, black eyes, brown eyes, yellow eyes, blue eyes, gold eyes, and a mix of all

Here is ming, a female Carolina DBT, rescued from the chinese food market with gold eyes.


And here is Desdemona, a female Texas DBT from the chinese food market, also with gold eyes.


Here is Chessy, a female Northern DBT, CB yearling, with brown eyes.


And here is Marfa, a female Texas DBT, CB yearling, with green eyes.


And last, here is Galveston, a male Texas DBT, rescued from the food market, with brown eyes, tinged with yellow.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

"rescued from the food market"?? People were going to eat those?

[crazycrowman]

Mar 1, 2009 17:22:55 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

"rescued from the food market"?? People were going to eat those?

YEP, you bet. Here they are, near dead in a bin in freezing weather (this was in December) waiting to be purchased, and then slaughtered. I purchased the females in the circles, and they are now living here. 2 others we purchased did not survive.

They are VERY hard to acclimate to captivity, and all three of the Carolina subspecies food market females are moving out to an enclosed filtered salthingyer pond this spring.

Read the info on my video for more info. It is a vile and unsustainable trade in animals that can't reproduce fast enough to deal with being trapped out.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNmtfplLIw
Here is how they are killed. *WARNING* This video is graphic, and it shows a red eared slider being prepared for food, and how the turtles bridge is cut, and the animal is split in half while still alive.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

Oh my... I'm glad I can't see the last video. Where was this? In america?!

[crazycrowman]

The video of me selecting turtles is from Chinatown, Philadelphia.

This is happening all over America the same thing is happening in Asian groceries. (And of course other "ethnic" grocers and food markets around the world)
nytts.org/Asianturtlecrisis.html

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

I'm surprised PETA hasn't stepped in.. But wait... They prefer fluffy things.


Poor little turtles. I'm glad you saved some. The world can use more people like you! ;D