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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by devoply on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:26PM (#19567758)
> The lizards were selling for about $35,000 (500 million rupiah) each.

Sounds to me like they should be farming these things. 100 animals is 3.5 million. Not a bad way to make money.

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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by avip on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:45PM (#19568188)
Komodo Dragons are notoriously reluctant to breed in captivity. There have been ~200 born in captivity the last 20 years, making the economics of your Dragons farm questionable.
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by astura on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:18PM (#19568830)
The price wouldn't be $35,000 a pop if they could easily be farmed.
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday April 04, 2019 @04:49AM (#19570318)
Cool! They should farm pandas and rhinos as well. Extinction would be solved overnight!
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by pawelmurias on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:33AM (#19570706)
Rhinos are being farmed already. You can regularly trim the horns of you rhino herd in edition to selling the rhinos themselves.
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by ni-hil on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:50PM (#19567884)
If you start farming them the price won’t stay $35k for long
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by devoply on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:54PM (#19567903)
I think they are very difficult to breed hence why farming is not common. Indonesia a pretty poor country so labor and land should be cheap. Whatever you have to do to get them to breed... you could figure it out.
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by wavefunction on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:32PM (#19568392)
Apparently... leave them alone. Unfortunately the simplest messages seem to be the hardest for humans to understand.
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Re:Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are S... by tomrod on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:51PM (#19568476)
Artificial insemination might work, right?
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