Collie Ennis
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But you couldn't lift a net for the weight of them.
Like they were absolutely packed in.
Not only that, we didn't find any dragonflies.
We didn't find a single froglet.
We didn't, like on a bog, that's insane.
When you're on a bog, you should be walking and just frogs are going everywhere.
So we didn't find any of them.
So what was happening, and then we discovered like in certain areas, the Alpine newts, because we check out their stomachs to see what they were eating.
they were turned into like a Komodo dragon type setup.
Was that unnatural?
They were getting larger than this?
No, no, no, no, no.
Komodo dragons, sorry, they're not going to turn into giant newts yet.
But Komodo dragons, before people brought, you know, domesticated animals onto the roost, they'd eat their own young to grow big.
Oh my God.
So a Komodo dragon in a state where there's no buffalo or goats around, how they get massive is by eating juveniles and they gang up on them and kill them.
But they lay so many eggs that all the juveniles go up into the trees and they'll feed off
bugs, stuff that wouldn't satiate an adult, but will feed and make a young one grow.
And then it comes down and then they predate on that.
And the biggest and toughest survive.