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Okay, my problem with the one study I have seen on it(the commonly quoted one I believe) is that all the tegus were collected from one specific area and it wasn't a huge number of animals collected and examined. That's not a conclusive study of tegus in general, it's a study of a population of tegus. As opportunistic feeders, I don't doubt that if more plant matter was available than whole prey they would eat more plant matter than whole prey. However, I have yet to see a study to actually convince me that they eat mostly plant matter. I do think the vet must be extremely uneducated if he thinks they don't eat any plant matter in the wild. I personally feed whole prey items and plants/fruits almost exclusively and don't feed the crap(ground turkey, eggs, etc.) that people who don't want to pay for quality food do.


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