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jim_radley · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject: Lost.

I recently started watching after watching whilst at a friends. One thing we both noticed, is that it's a large island but apart from Boar and Polar bears on the island. There aren't any reptiles, not even any invertebrate.

Jas · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

My mate just has just come back from his honeymoon in Hawai where it was filmed and he went to North beach where it was filmed and he didnt see any reptiles either Laughing

He did see a baby boar though that had lost its mother, ill see if i can get him to send me the pic.

jim_radley · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject:

Strange, it's a tropical island and yet there isn't a single reptile to be found. Yet in some of the most inhospitable places on earth they are usually in their element (with exceptions being the Arctic and Antarctic).

Jas · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

well my mate isnt into reptiles, so dont think he was looking for any.Jacksons chameleons are supposed to be quite common there.

JStroud · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:07 am Post subject:

Only thanks to them being released, they're non native and so in theory shouldn't be surviving as well as they are Rolling Eyes

Scott W · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:25 am Post subject:

JStroud · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:

No I'm just saying because they're feral they you wouldn't have thought they'd have colonised and become and prolific as they are out there. As far as I've heard theres been no direct knock-on affects to other species either, I guess competition for food with other lizards would be the only disadvantage.

I also heard the story about their release but thought he just put them on trees in his garden as pets only to find them all vanishing Laughing

Jas · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

Maybe it was him who released the polar bears there too! Laughing

Jas · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

Heres that photo my mate took out there.The guide who was with him told him it would die soon tho without its mother. Crying or Very sad

Scott W · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:18 am Post subject:

I guess the boar must be doing alot of damage on the island?

I do like boar! (to eat & to keep Wink

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