I posted these thoughts on the boa forum to the same topic covered by another television news station---



Posted by: jscrick at Fri Mar 28 13:03:29 2008 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]



If so many people are releasing their captive born pet Burmese Pythons loose in the Everglades, where are all the morphs?

Are they finding Albinos, Greens, Labyrinths, etc? Not hearing anything about that. There would be a reasonable percentage of heterozygous for such things in that wild feral population, if indeed they are released pets that are reproducing in the wild. There should be a reasonable number of "Morphs" in any sample population, shouldn't there? Never hear anything about finding Burmese morphs in the Everglades. Seems to me a large Albino would be even more newsworthy.

Throws their whole premise, as to the origin of this snake population into question.

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