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10-Mar-08, 05:31 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Gold Coast Age/Gender: 26  | | | Disgraceful Reptiles at Dreamworld
Now I know Dreamworld isn't a zoo or anything but I'm really disapointed witht the quality of reptiles on display. Especially calling it an "Australian Reptile Experience". I'd post pictures but quite frankly it would be degrading to Australian pythons.
I remember seeing them a few years ago and didn't think too much about it. I've been again a couple of time since, the most recently being the other day. I think they must purposely over feed their snakes so they get big and fat. Probably to achieve a wow factor from tourist especially internationals. Off the top of my head their Jungle, Woma, Blackheads, and a couple of others were just really dirty looking, about twice as fat as they should be and a disgrace to pythons especially ones for display purposes. With the Woma and Blackheads you could hardly tell they had any patterns as they were just a plain brown, dull, dirty looking thing. Only difference between the 2 snakes was obviously there head.
Some were kept on red dirt and others, including the Jungle, on dead leaves and sticks.
Pretty much if you think of the worst examples of these snakes you've seen, then Dreamworld bought them and displayed them.
Anyway that's my rant and anyone who's been I'm sure will agree.
Cheers,
Choco
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10-Mar-08, 05:35 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | Post photos, they just sound like old animals?
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10-Mar-08, 05:40 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | Are you saying that Dreamworld has animals you don't consider attractive, and you're calling that (and the snakes themselves) a disgrace?
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10-Mar-08, 05:41 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Darwin Age/Gender: 32 | | | woma s and bhps can loose their coloration as they age would be good to see some pics.
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10-Mar-08, 05:42 PM
|  | QUEEN B Subscriber | Join Date: May-07 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23  | | | | I went to Dreamworld about 18 months ago, I thought the animals looked fine.
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10-Mar-08, 05:46 PM
|  | Bendy! Sponsor | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | The animals they use aren't the best examples of what the species can look like, but they are most definitely healthy and kept in clean conditions.
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10-Mar-08, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonno from ERD  The animals they use aren't the best examples of what the species can look like, but they are most definitely healthy and kept in clean conditions. | I'd rather them look like like a non designer specimen than those you see in poor conditions at some of the petshops and small parks i have seen. Congrats to them for keeping them healthy and clean. |
10-Mar-08, 06:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Choco
With the Woma and Blackheads you could hardly tell they had any patterns as they were just a plain brown, dull, dirty looking thing. Only difference between the 2 snakes was obviously there head.
Some were kept on red dirt and others, including the Jungle, on dead leaves and sticks.
| Awesome!! Nothing i like better than drab, faded, dirty looking herps!
So what if they look this way? They are displaying the species, not the colour variations. Makes a nice change from seeing flashy, perfectly marked pythons.
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10-Mar-08, 06:32 PM
|  | slimin about! Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Cairns | | | They were fine when I went - and the monitors etc were really active... A bit too active if you know what I mean 
To be honest the BHP looked like a BHP to me... was fairly large I agree... But nothing disappointing or didn't look over fed.
Sorry, I'm not sure I agree with the disgrace comments.
But their other lizards, like that Dorothy the Dinosaur, now she was a disgrace... truly over fed! |
10-Mar-08, 07:44 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Somewhere in the great SE (QLD) Gender: | | | | Was there on the weekend, not the best looking pythons pattern wise but the caging and husbandary appeared fine just drab looking species, i think disgraceful is a bit harsh so here are some pics, decide for yourself.........
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10-Mar-08, 07:47 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Somewhere in the great SE (QLD) Gender: | | | | and some more, the scrubbie was impressive...
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10-Mar-08, 07:50 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Somewhere in the great SE (QLD) Gender: | | | last few, now the stimmie was ugly but in it's defence it was coming up for a slough 
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10-Mar-08, 07:51 PM
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10-Mar-08, 07:52 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-05 Location: Earth Gender: | | | | re Disgraceful
Yeh they look OK to me,pretty much your stock standard garden variety BHps LOLz |
10-Mar-08, 07:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-05 Location: Earth Gender: | | |  re Disgraceful
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Originally Posted by serpenttongue Awesome!! Nothing i like better than drab, faded, dirty looking herps!
So what if they look this way? They are displaying the species, not the colour variations. Makes a nice change from seeing flashy, perfectly marked pythons. | You dont tell simone you like her cause shes cheap and dirty do ya serpentongue,thats soughta kinky and wicked HaHa i love it! Yeh baby yeh !! | | |
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