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BillMcgElaphe
at Sat Mar 4 09:05:26 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BillMcgElaphe ]
Leucistic Black Rat Snake – The undying thread from Hell - LOL
1. The Taxonomist in me says “leucism and is aberrant and unsuccessful in the animal’s survival in nature as to be pointless in binomial nomenclature.”
2. The ethical breeder in me says “I must know the history of a breed (Collie, Doberman, Manx, Arabian, Texas Rat Snake or Black Rat snake.”
3. The practical breeder in me says “I don’t care. Can it live in a sweater box?”
4. The unethical breeder in me says “I don’t care. Can I sell it for more if I call it something else?”
5. The field herper in me says “if I found a genuine, wild leucistic reptile of any genus I’d be ecstatic. It would be a life long dream.”
I would then shoot myself because no one would
believe me!
6. The armchair herpetologist in me says “would I still always smell of formalin all the time if I only pickled leucistic animals?”
7. The academic in me says “can I have my graduate students work on leucistic Rat Snakes, plagiarize their work, publish the result and be famous?”
8. The behaviorist in me says “I wonder why some leucistic Texas Rat Snakes and hypo Everglades are often docile. “
9. The Frankenstein geneticist in me says “I wonder if Black and Texas leucistic animals would breed and produce white sided, amelanistic, anethyristic, axanthic, piebald, hypo, hypers, and then can I cross them with a Jungle Corn?”
10. The Dad and Granddad in me says “Leucistic snakes are really great looking animals. I wonder if I should buy one for my grandson’s birthday.”
11. The redneck guy in me says “I just want a beer and see something nek’ed (Jeff Foxworthy)”
12. Finally the old guy in me says “Screw it. It’s still winter in my neck of the woods. I’m going fishing!”
Check out this discussion on this very same forum in 2001!
http://forum.kingsnake.com/rat/messages/3880.html
And muck it up even more with this:
http://www.ratsnakes.com/Eospiloides_leuc.html
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Regards, Bill McGighan
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I’m so confused..... - BillMcgElaphe, Sat Mar 4 09:05:26 2006