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That snake was born here last season and is now three feet in length. Photo from today..

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Here's a birth-photo..

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.. you can see there are more with similar aberrancies. In many litters of Peru Boas I have seen a handful of babies with the same types of pattern anomalies, missing or misplaced saddles, in Pucallpa litters and Iquitos babies. The most extreme examples are nearly always delivered dead or with some abnormality. Anything as simple as a kinked tail to a jaw or other head deformity.

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The ones I have kept and raised have so far proven to be normal in all visible ways but the patternless trait in the Peru boas is, I believe, linked to some developmental problem, irregularity or what-have-you.

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Thanks for looking!

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Gus

A. Rentfro

RioBravoReptiles.com

www.riobravoreptiles.com



"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

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• Peru boas with odd or skipped pattern... - Riobravoreptiles, Wed Sep 13 10:46:34 2006
• I love that 'naked' look! he he n/p - slithering_serpents, Wed Sep 13 14:11:07 2006
• I still like Mr. Perfect... - ChrisGilbert, Wed Sep 13 15:15:29 2006
• That one can skip over to my collection! - BrownsBoas, Wed Sep 13 19:57:56 2006