>>I guess I'm thinking about a webpage which shows their natural variability. For example, "back in the day" I'd go to reptile shows and see Bigheaded Turtles. They all pretty much looked the same. Then I stumbled across this webpage (link below) and it made me realize that there's a heck of a lot of variabilty that I never suspected.

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>>I think there's a similar amount of color and pattern variety in Great Plain Rats, it's just no one seems to talk about it.

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>>I'll tell Marty you said "hey."

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>>Tim

>>Bighead Photo Page





Interesting page on that bigheaded turtle. I don't have that much material to work with, but have tried to show some of the variability before on the Ratsnake Forum, if you look through the archives. I think it's a great long range project, however, and will definitely keep it in mind. Right now I'm mostly interested in the variability of just that southern ssps, "meahllmorum". I suppose I could do a little blurp on it here on this forum, but it would be lots better if I had many more examples.



Thanks for the idea....Terry

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