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dustyrhoads
at Mon Feb 16 16:03:27 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dustyrhoads ]
Here are two full siblings of Pantherophis bairdi 'nuevoleonensis'. One is a brand new hatchling, and the other is a year older -- already ontogenetically changed into its slate gray head and maize-yellow body. This pic is about seven months old, and that yellow animal has gotten more red/orange. Their parents are unrelated F1s -- the female is Galeana, Nuevo Leon locale, and the male is Chipinque Parque Ecologico locale (near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon), where the IHS field trip will be this summer. Incredible race of a species sympatric with alterna.
Thanks for looking!
Dusty Rhoads
p.s. Hat tip to Michael Price for letting me buy the parents a few years ago.  (p.s.s. Michael wants them back!)
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