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Age in human years
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[QUOTE="ChileanTaco, post: 2045592, member: 118921"] I know for some animals, like dogs, there is a "age in human years" scale. Especially the dog one was revised recently. The problem is IMHO that different animals don't do, experience the same things in the same order - e.g.: some species can breed before being fully grown, some only breed some time after they are fully grown. Some go through some changes during their life, others stay quite the same until they die (look the same, can breed) - how much is an animal of a species that doesn't change much really aging during that time? For that we would have to compare things we cannot easily see, like what's going on in their body (cancer cells? blood vessels? telomeres?) I'd say from what we know a bearded dragon older than maybe 8 - 10 years is for sure a senior; also we know when they are fully grown. For anything in between, I would not compare a dragon's age to a human's age. Also, it's not really known how old bearded dragons can get, and how rare it would be that a bearded dragon get's, let's say, 15 old if the care would be perfect. Here we see sometimes dragons with 10+ years, some people claim even 15 years (when I say "claim" I don't mean they might lie, but rather that they maybe don't know exactly how old their dragon was when they got them). How old would dragons get on average with "perfect conditions", i.e. light, food, temperature like in their natural environment, minus their natural predators, add in a good vet? Would the 15-year-old beardie still be rare, or would that become something not rare to see? We don't know. [/QUOTE]
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