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RE: What is it hyper for???

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Posted by: patoquack at Mon Mar 9 00:24:20 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by patoquack ]  
   

I was thinking along the same lines as your question..

I'm assuming the hyper is referring to hyper-melanistic as the boa is darker than normal.

so, I'm thinking about how we and everyone calls hypo-melanistic boas as just "hypos." We don't say the whole thing.. we just call them hypos.



so - maybe it's OK to call the hyper-melanistic boas just plain ol' hypers.



hypers and hypos.



seems fair to me now that I've thought about it.

   

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