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Aaron
at Sun Jan 20 16:25:28 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]
I don't disagree but I was specifically posing the question: when you get a snake to eat and breed during winter, what have you done? Have you supported what that snake wanted to do? Or have you broken the instinct that that snake naturally has?
I suspect it varies from idividual to individual, especially among wide ranging species. If you take a zonata from 6,000 feet in the Sierras, that lives in a shady north facing canyon and get it to feed and breed in winter, you have probably broken it's natural instinct. Or at least encouraged a behavior that is more rare for that population. If you take a zonata from a south facing slope at 100 feet elevation in Malibu Canyon and get it to feed and breed during winter, you are probably supporting a behavior that is alot more common among that population.
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