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Subject: Re: To Jane
Posted by Jane, (Ph.D as well) on August 31, 1998 at 10:52:53:

In Reply to: To Jane posted by Dr. Curtis Mittong on August 30, 1998 at 23:39:12:

Curtis, before you start spouting your qualifications be aware that you are not the only person with such "higher" qualifications. Your spouting Ph.Ds I find offensive. I personally hold a Ph.D from Edinburgh university in molecular biology and did my postdoc at Harvard Medical School. That said please DO NOT condescend to me. Fact 1 my gliders have never eaten their babies and I have had 12 now. The only thing I am doing differently from other people is providing more protein. Other owners do see cannibalism insinuating that there is a dietary deficiency. Natural situations can cause animals to resort to cannibalism. I have seen many mice and rats do this as a cleaning up process. When there is a protein shortage eating offspring conserving resources is a way that Evolved to conserve nutrients.
Your experience with gliders is welcome and the fact that you have not seen cannibalism is interesting. however breeders in this country have seen gliders steal the babies and eat them. This may be a nasty side effect of the gliders being kept in a small area compared to their natural situation but my comments were not niave but based on what I have observed others see. True my experiences are purely (thank god) discussions of what others have seen but I am not anthrophomorphizing as you hypothesize.
Please post again with more of your details of your studies but please do not throw your qualifications in our faces.
Jane

Follow Ups:

• Re: To Jane Kim S. 11:31:13 8/31/98 (3)
  • To Kim an apology please read Jane 15:34:02 9/01/98 (2)
    • Re: Thank you... Kim S. 20:39:19 9/01/98 (0)
    • Re: To Kim an apology please read Bourbon 16:39:18 9/01/98 (0)