Shannon and Jason said:Are they finding that Sulcatas are scavengers of sort or is this just last resort when no other food is available?
According to what I have been told, they are protein lovers and opportunistic scavengers. There is not a time of year for them when food is scarce over there. They line their burrows with weeds and grass near the end of the rainy season, and so they have plenty to eat, or they can eat the dried out grasses above ground too.
The late Bert Langerwerf used to toss raw chicken and turkey bones with meat and gristle still on them to his sulcatas and they devoured them like candy.
Please don't misunderstand. I am NOT advocating we all start feeding our sulcatas fresh road kill. Just relating things I've been told, or read, that are interesting to me. I tossed a recently trapped, dead, tree root eating, rat-bastard, interloping, gopher to my sulcatas one day. They all ignored it. Dave Friend tells a story of one of his sulcatas that used to actually hunt, kill and eat gophers.