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Scorpion update
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I eventually received a reply from the Insect Identification Service at the Natural History Museum:
"It has fairly small/delicate pincers and a thin tail this is the basic ingredient for fairly venomous scorpions...It appears to be very well fed."
Oh dear...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals_and_Nat ure/Question274314.html
"It has fairly small/delicate pincers and a thin tail this is the basic ingredient for fairly venomous scorpions...It appears to be very well fed."
Oh dear...
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals_and_Nat ure/Question274314.html
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Oh dear indeed.....it must be a bit of a shock to say the least!!!!
What do they suggest you do now, keep it as a pet - or will they take it away for you? Is it an escapee from some exotic collection do you think? The African Scorpion and Emperor are both black. Please keep us posted TBG, as the drama unfolds.
What do they suggest you do now, keep it as a pet - or will they take it away for you? Is it an escapee from some exotic collection do you think? The African Scorpion and Emperor are both black. Please keep us posted TBG, as the drama unfolds.
I'm afraid that's where the story ends. From the same NHM email:
"what would you like to do with it now. If you were able to bring it down to south Ken we could identify it and determine where it is likely to have come from and arrange for it's care after that"
I've replied to inform them that I've released it. I would have liked to have kept it, but to look after such an animal properly, would have required feeding it with live prey. Seems like it was quite capable of feeding itself, so maybe it's better off in the 'wild'.
"what would you like to do with it now. If you were able to bring it down to south Ken we could identify it and determine where it is likely to have come from and arrange for it's care after that"
I've replied to inform them that I've released it. I would have liked to have kept it, but to look after such an animal properly, would have required feeding it with live prey. Seems like it was quite capable of feeding itself, so maybe it's better off in the 'wild'.
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