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>>I hope all admit what ever side you are on, this practice could and probably will have an impact on our wild live.
>>I think if I put numbers to it, 2 years ago, I was 90% for 10% against, I'm now 30% for 70% against.
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How can breeding hybrids in captivity have an impact on wild life?
At least I would assume you meant wild life.
People breed hybrids, people breed pure stock.
The number of pure snakes bred every year seriously out numbers the number of hybrids bred every year.
Notice these are all bred in captivity. Nothing to do with wild life.
Some people say, "oh no, what if some of these were released into the wild?"
Well, for the ones that would survive, which wouldn't be a large number to begin with, you would then have to figure how many would breed successfully.
Even less.
So when these hybids breed in the wild it would have to be one species or the other which makes up the hybrid, right.
So, the offspring would then only be 25% whatever and 75% pure.
As these offspring spread out, some die, some survive and a few may breed successfully. As they spread out the chances they would happen to breed with one of their own siblings would be slim so you would expect them to breed with another pure specimen.
This now drops them down to only 12.5% whatever and 87.5% pure.
At this rate within 5 or 6 generations, the few that might survive and reproduce would be producing offspring that would be over 97% pure.
I just don't see the numbers supporting any impact what-so-ever to wild populations.
Someone would have to dump 100's to 1000's in a controlled environment to result in a devistating impact.
MY opinion anyway...for whatever that is worth
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