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Aaron
at Fri Aug 10 20:31:20 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]
I really don't know what it is. Anything beyond simple recessive is almost too complicated for me. I can tell you that in the wild very, very few female striped/abberrant hypermelanistics have been found and it took a long time before anybody found one. On top of that very few people were breeding them and it took a long time before any female with striped/abberrants were hatched. For many years all of the females were banded but they did usually have solid black bellies with faint striping just on the underside of the tail and dark stripes behind the eyes. As a result people belived for a long time that males were always striped/abberrant and females were always banded.
Recently through the work of Kerby and Rick Staub we have seen quite a few female striped/abberrant hypermelanistics. Also there have been a few seen in the wild recently but I think it is only like 1 out of 30 or 40 females has been striped abberrant. So we know it is possible but we still don't know why it's not seen as frequently.
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RE: Just like,........ - Aaron, Fri Aug 10 20:31:20 2007