Bahaha...Thats awesome! :lol: SO FUNNY! I mean, I knew they were fairly stupid and uneducated, but geez! They are suppose to know more than us! They are suppose to know everything about them as that is their main field of work and they get PAID to know this kind of thing etc! The least they could do is research it!
Us keepers know so much more than them, and for most of us its not our sole job/occupation etc etc Most of us have full-time jobs and do it on the side etc etc...
But I spose, its something that really interests us and we are insanely passionate about so we actively seek out as much info as we can about it, and some of us actively seek them out in the wild and study and photograph them, they are probably not so keen on reptiles and actually probably hate them and hence dont want to know anything about them etc etc...
But still, you'd think being a government-run department and all, they would properly train or hire people to know more than the average Joe about this kind of thing!.....Shows how much this department and the welfare of our native animals really means to them huh?
I wish they actually employed people who actually know stuff about them, and have actual experience with them, not just that they are cold-blooded and have scales (or not if its a certain "morph" of death adder for example - something Im almost 100% certain that none of them know!
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Hahaha reminds me, I had a couple of rangers come out to mine to help fix up my books when I first started out, and I could have told them that they were a really rare type of prehistoric python and that they only live on the bottom of a freshwater lake in tasmania oh.,..and that they are crossed with a ven:lol:, and they would have believed me!:shock: One of them knew nothing about them, and the other who was spose to be the "reptile expert" at that branch, had no clue!
I asked him about a deceased CENTRAL bearded dragon and if I could let my lecturer (he is an awesome - and my FAVOURITE - lecturer and knows his stuff when it comes to reptiles and all wildlife in general) autopsy it and bury it afterwards, he said no that I cant let it go to my lecturer as its still a protected species, I told him that he has a scientific/educational purposes permit to collect dead protected animals etc, and he said, Oh, ok...He would find them dead around here all the time anyways - I was thinking errr, no he wouldnt! Its a Central bearded dragon, NOT an EASTERN bearded dragon!
But I just kept my mouth shut about it and let them believe that central beardies come from the east coast of Aus...LOL! As I wanted to know why it died etc and I wanted to aid in scientific research/training etc... Oh and its not like he didnt know which type of beardie it was, He saw in my books it was a Central and sighted it and everything....Mustnt have know that Centrals come from central aus and easterns come from eastern aus and hence the naming of them LOL! Even though a small child could figure that one out!
Anyways, enough of my blabbering lol
It really does suck though when you are first starting out and want to know as much as you can on the legalities and things or you've been in it for a while and want to follow something up further etc, and the people who are suppose to know them inside and out have NFI whatsoever! I mean, thats their chosen career path, and yet they know Sweet F All about it! Either that, or they THINK they know everything and you know for a fact that its WRONG!:evil:
