Dolph C. Volker | Playing Catch Baseball With Finster The Ant Lion | Comparing Predator Feeding Of Gabriel The Cheetah @CheetahWhisperer | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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I feed and play catch baseball with Finster the Antlion. Finster finished his Sarlac pit and I started feeding him and now he went dormmate over winter after eating all he could. Antlions in larval stage don't have an anus 🤢 which means they can't eliminate any waste and stop eating when they have enough food stored to metamorphize in 6 months. We played ball and I fed him until he stopped eating and now he waits in his home to be transformed. I hope he makes it. I have not seen any movement from him for months now. Once he metamorphizes into a dragonfly looking flying organism, he/she will set off to mate and do it all over again.
I compare my different feeding approaches between a sentient mammalian predator like Gabriel The Cheetah, whom I feed pre-prepared meals (not 'live' ones) and Finster, who must be fed 'live' meals to stimulate his feeding response to get him to eat. I don't think it is ethical to feed Gabriel live meals in his current enclosure and will only consider him hunting for his own food if I ever get the chance to train him on an open large 300hector or larger game range. That is fairer for both predator and prey. I won't 'pit' them together.
Finster is a different case in that both predator and prey are mostly instinctive and since I am responsible for their lives, I take responsibility for the feeding method I have chosen and must do. I value most all life but realize there are those on this planet where the balance of nature exists because of the relationship of predator and prey. If I hold captive a predator, then I must adhere to the best way of providing for them using my scale of ethics and common sense.
Hope you enjoy my goofy approach to science and discovery. I won't always use this approach but enjoy doing it occasionally. Next video should be a 'live' reunion with Gabriel the Cheetah as I am preparing a visit with him soon.
Thanks for watching!
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"Playing baseball with Antlion, one insect at a time," Dolph C. Volker
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I feed and play catch baseball with Finster the Antlion. Finster finished his Sarlac pit and I started feeding him and now he went dormmate over winter after eating all he could. Antlions in larval stage don't have an anus 🤢 which means they can't eliminate any waste and stop eating when they have enough food stored to metamorphize in 6 months. We played ball and I fed him until he stopped eating and now he waits in his home to be transformed. I hope he makes it. I have not seen any movement from him for months now. Once he metamorphizes into a dragonfly looking flying organism, he/she will set off to mate and do it all over again.
I compare my different feeding approaches between a sentient mammalian predator like Gabriel The Cheetah, whom I feed pre-prepared meals (not 'live' ones) and Finster, who must be fed 'live' meals to stimulate his feeding response to get him to eat. I don't think it is ethical to feed Gabriel live meals in his current enclosure and will only consider him hunting for his own food if I ever get the chance to train him on an open large 300hector or larger game range. That is fairer for both predator and prey. I won't 'pit' them together.
Finster is a different case in that both predator and prey are mostly instinctive and since I am responsible for their lives, I take responsibility for the feeding method I have chosen and must do. I value most all life but realize there are those on this planet where the balance of nature exists because of the relationship of predator and prey. If I hold captive a predator, then I must adhere to the best way of providing for them using my scale of ethics and common sense.
Hope you enjoy my goofy approach to science and discovery. I won't always use this approach but enjoy doing it occasionally. Next video should be a 'live' reunion with Gabriel the Cheetah as I am preparing a visit with him soon.
Thanks for watching!
My YouTube Channel:
youtube.com/channel/UC25bqOksVyD-SfdAToam-Bg
Twitter: twitter.com/cheetah_petter
Facebook: facebook.com/The-Cheetah-Whisperer-200126363927484
"Playing baseball with Antlion, one insect at a time," Dolph C. Volker
Check Out My Books I Wrote
1: amazon.com/DIRE-ENCOUNTERS-Man-Meets-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00UEHUB2G
2: amazon.com/dp/B072N5M7KB
