That's a great point, you are correct. There's holes in all the histories, some say that the captive birth that was photographed was actually from a captive breeding and not a wild breeding as reported. I think with Corallus it's more possible since they are a naturally sedentry animal. I just don't see a big female Emerald making that much of an effort to escape the courtship of a Amazon at least not as much as a gopher snake would protest being bred by a California King when there was room to escape. I am sure that some breedings do take place in the exporters holding facilities especially with animals routinely held together such as Burmese, Retics & Scrubs and Emeralds, Amazons & Annulateds. If it can be proven that any of the import gravid animals that produced hybrids were held by the exporters for less time than the gestation of a Emerald than I think we can be fairly certain that they were wild breedings but that kind of information is almost impossible to obtain with any kind of reliability.

Horridus

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