Re: storing a food source

[Augusto Haro <augustoharo@gmail.com>]

Can it be that some reptiles are unlikely to store fat? It seems that
storing fat in snakes may hinder locomotion more than in other
reptiles. Perhaps also in flying birds.

2009/9/16 Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>:
> On Wed, Sep 16th, 2009 at 1:12 PM, David Krentz <ddkrentz@charter.net>
> wrote:
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>>    I was wondering if there are any kinds of reptiles store food for
>> later use, and why.
>
> I've heard it said that crocs will lodge a carcass underwater beneath
> something like a submerged log, to come back to at a later date.
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