Harsh feeding pictures
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I can't believe how much those things eat. It's really amazing. Nice pics!
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It looks like you used prekilled mice for feedings, well done I prefer that to the sensationalized killing of live rodents by these wonderful animals.
feeding vid
This is my vietnamese yellow leg named charlie,and his first mouse.These are graphic,but show how much they can really eat.
This vid was started about 4 seconds after first contact,or bite.
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f...yellow leg/?action=view¤t=Video0010.flv
This is what was left.I couldnt believe how much he ate....and I feed him every week
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f...yellow leg/?action=view¤t=Video0013.flv
This pede,at the time was around 8-8 1/2 inch's
This is my vietnamese yellow leg named charlie,and his first mouse.These are graphic,but show how much they can really eat.
This vid was started about 4 seconds after first contact,or bite.
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f...yellow leg/?action=view¤t=Video0010.flv
This is what was left.I couldnt believe how much he ate....and I feed him every week
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f...yellow leg/?action=view¤t=Video0013.flv
This pede,at the time was around 8-8 1/2 inch's
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Great pictures, and that is intense, but awesome! I can't wait to get some more pedes! Stupid bank is taking forever..:wall:
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I used to split the pinkies in two or more pieces before feeding my young :drool:
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Well nonetheless I approve, way to be responcible.
Does anyone know if live mice can be induced into a state of shock by centipede envenomation?
Or that shock quickly follows mechanical damage and bodily trauma via the centipede's feeding parts?
Just curious and food for thought.
And Jonathan --- awesome pics!
Or that shock quickly follows mechanical damage and bodily trauma via the centipede's feeding parts?
Just curious and food for thought.
And Jonathan --- awesome pics!
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i fed live pinkies a couple of times (once for sure, maybe 2x) to S. subpinipes and it took for freaking ever for the mousy to die. i only feed prekilled to everything now cuz i wasn't comfortable with the level of suffering the mouse had to endure. and we are talking a 7" BL viet... pretty beefy centipede
Yeah, I wouldn't want to hear the squeeks, squeels, and hapless rassling. But it would help the conscience if I knew whether or not the mice felt real excruciating pain or simply reacting to mild strange discomfort and the distress associated with being held by 21 pairs of legs.
Well take a shot to the kneecap or belly, they say it is excruciating yet body trauma can and does induce shock that acts like a pain suppressor. And even curious if the venom on a smaller creature such as a mouse overload it's pain receptors and nerves that the brain is not receiving these messages anymore, that is in a state of shock or something similar.
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beautiful, and savage, feeding photos Jon.
btw, do large centipedes prey on small rodents in the wild?
btw, do large centipedes prey on small rodents in the wild?
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and having just been bitten (well, envenomated at any rate) but a subspinipes this saturday (and still not over the bite 100% this wednesday morning) i can assure you it is a fairly vomitous amount of pain
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Hahahaha, you've been envenomated the day after i did
. Mine was by a 3'' specimen though and i have totally recovered. phil.
Caco,have you made a bite report on the subspinipe's yet.Very interested to hear about it.
Also,visually it only took a few seconds for my yellow leg's poison to kill the mouse.It gasped for air,and that was it.First time ive seen any of my pede's use poison.
Also,visually it only took a few seconds for my yellow leg's poison to kill the mouse.It gasped for air,and that was it.First time ive seen any of my pede's use poison.
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They're opportunistic predators, I imagine they eat just about anything that doesn't eat them first if hungry enough. I have seen pictures of them eating wild lizards and snakes.
Well, it was a thought. Body trauma can shut down messages of pain to the brain and so the body doesn't register the pain anymore. But yes, shock usually means a complete shutdown and lack of response.
Sounds fun, please post a bite report. Are you vomiting? Any systematics besides alot of pain? Anyways, please take some pain medication and hope you get well soon buddy!