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RE: Fertile?

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Posted by: aberlour at Sun Aug 6 03:05:40 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by aberlour ]  
   

"I have been into herps for a long time , but I have never owned a hybrid. I have a question that should seem elementary to you all, but confuses me. I realize that you can get two different species to breed and even have offspring, but shouldn't they be infertile by the very definition of the word species? Are all snakes just sub-species of each other?"



Well unfortunately the words species and even genera are all just man made classifications to separate what seems similar and what does not by definition they should not be fertile however we know this is not holding water. What It all really comes down to is evolution lineage and how genetically close the two animal are. Hybrids snakes however have seem to just about broken off the out dated scheme of classification though as there are high rates of fertility in intergeneric hybrids as well as interspecific hybrids as well.
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Adam

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