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BChambers
at Thu Mar 2 22:25:46 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BChambers ]
Sighthunter-I was there in Ohio in the late eighties when this happened, and the young man who collected the leucistic was a casual friend of mine. If you want his name please email me. I too was a skeptic at the time, but his story of this snake's capture on a rural farm, which was corroborated by a mutual friend, won me over.
On the subject of breeding trials with lucy texas rats-this won't prove much even if the cross produces leucistics. If both mutations in the respective ssp. happen to affect the same genes, then they will be compatible, pair up, and produce pure lucys even if the snakes ARE from different ssp.! For example, if I were to find a new wild-caught amel black rat in the woods here in New York this season, there is every possibility that it might be compatible with present captive strains, even if it has arisen spontaneously in our local wild population!
Brad Chambers
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RE: It's all so very simple... - BChambers, Thu Mar 2 22:25:46 2006