OR those hybrids could inject enough hybrid vigour and gentic diversity to save those faltering lines. Hybrids are more likely to cross into a wide range of other snakes. It is also the vehicle that nature has been using for thousands of years to create these so-called species. We do not know the outcome. We cant even pretend to. To say, oh theywill ruin everything if one gets loose is a bit fatalistic. First, the species you mention are all introduced species, yet athe cal.corn cross is closely related to the rats and kings in the states you mention, so you are at most talking about intergradation which has been going on since the ice age started 1.6 million years ago, so, "unnatural", a "disaster"? I think not. I think it is the exact modus operendi that "nature" has been using for millenia, especially with these "genera" and "species". Remeber that the "cal" is just a sub-species of the getula which is spread from coast to coast with only slight variations.

BDR

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