qroberts, you are right on target here. One thing that so many of the hybrid haters seem to forget (or intentionally dont mention) is that hybrids in overlap areas of colubrid species are not only known, but are not so uncommon. One often hears that hybrid breeders "trick" everything to get it to happen, but that is certainly not always the case. A great many jungles are produced just like corns or kings; by putting a male and a female together. The fact that hybrids (which we know are fertil most of the time) occur in nature, means that they are likely backbreeding to one species or the other, and thus any "pure" or "locality" animal could have hybrid origins. Just because it came from the wild does not exclude this possibilty and visual identification can most certainly not identify an obseleta thirty generations back in a gutatta line. A hybrid from the wild is much more natural than a morph from a plastic box.

BDR

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