Simply based on looks alone, without the aberrancies I would GUESS that to be an animal from Pucallpa. I based my guess on the shape and color of the few saddles that weren't aberrant. A few of the non-aberrant saddles also have the slightest bump in the center of them that looks like it almost wanted to be a peak. (Hope that made sense) I also took into account the tail markings.

I also based my guess from boas that I have also seen in other pics directly from Pucallpa. While they may or may not look similar, I believe that just because a few people in the US might be working with select small groups of animals (of verifyable locality), those animals should NOT be the end all definition of what an animal from a said locality should or should not look like. I don't think the limited number of animals, their offspring, and the characteristics that they posses in captivity can even compare to all the different looks that a wild population could be capable of displaying.

If I were to make a GUESS at where the animal was from with the aberrancies included I would GUESS Pucallpa. I can't recall ever seeing an animal with the striping or the extreme center pinced saddles that animal has in a few towards the tail in a verifyable Iquitos animal. I'm sure that there are a few aberrant Iquitos out there somewhere, but from my limited experience, Pucallpa animals seem to display the aberrancies alot more frequently, in captive collections, and also in wild caught peruvian animals.

Then again for all I know, I doubt it, but that animal could be a BCC BCI jungle cross. Maybe that's where the aberrancies came from JK Great discussion and topic everybody, Take Care, Nick Stone

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