Kisses to you too, Tom.

Unlike you, I am not attacking *people* but rather *arguments* and *claims*. If you think my arguments or claims are faulty, feel free to offer evidence to the contrary.

As for the morphs -- you said:

>>First I started the Burmese morph deal or played a major role by obtaining the first albino Burmese in the early 80'.

If the FIRST albinos were obtained in the early 80s, then the albinos, much less any other morphs, would not have started becoming COMMON in the pet trade for several years AFTER that -- and would have been expensive probably for several years after THAT. So, if the releases occurred especially in the 80s and probably into the 90s, they would likely have been of normal animals. And notice that I'm not claiming that the burms in the glades DID come from pet releases -- I have no idea whether they did or not. I am only saying that the absence of obvious morphs in the glades does not disprove the theory of pet releases.

>>By the 90's you would have been hard put to find a normal burmese that wasn't a morph or het.

I've never done a scientific analysis of the ratio of normal vs. morph burms in the trade, but here's a very small start on a survey: if you type in "burmese python for sale" into google, then click on the first link, you'll get to an ad compiler called "oodles.com" . In their current listings of burmese pythons, as best I can tell (trying to eliminate duplicate ads) there are for sale:

granite -- 2
visually normal -- 23
albino -- 11

So, no, even today it isn't hard to find a burm that is at least visually normal. Of course, we can't tell about the hets without breeding em!
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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