[quote=Joegreenbeen]
I read on a website that you should buy them so you can keep them alive.
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Not quite sure what the logic is there, since the pet trade is generally a factor in the endangerment of many species.

For one thing, if you're keeping one as a pet, odds are you're not breeding more of them - preventing them from doing the repopulating that they could be doing in the wild.

If the website you read that on was the same website that sold them, odds are they lied to you to make a buck.