>>Somwhere in this thread it was brought up maybe this is the case. I know what was meant by this comment...but there are some rue Okeetees out there, meaning animals that have ancestery from animals caught around the old plantation that have only been bred to other animals from the Okeetee area. Such as the animals below (this may be seen as a cheap way to promote for my Okeetees but this is not my intention)that come from animals that were collected by some of my very good friends and the resulting offspring have only been bred to other offspring that came from the original animals that were collected back in the late 80's. You can see some of the differences in some of these individuals.
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>>This animal was an offspring of the original group that was captured in the late 80's, she was hatched out in '89 and died in 2007 but not after producing some 400 or so offspring in her life.
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>>This female was produced by the one above and has what I consider the "look" of a classic Okeetee including the development of the dark longitudinal lines that often come with age.
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>>This female was produced by the one above and the photo does not show how red this individual really is. It has a hypo look to it but it only has Okeetee blood in it, ie. blood from that original group on wild caught animals.
>> The two points I am trying to make is that locality Okeetees exsist (even though I know none really doubts this) which in this case, are offspring of animals that were captured in a relatively small area that we call the Okeetee and what we may call locality animals can change as we humans begin "messin" with them over the course of a few generations
>>Scott John Reptiles



I understand what you are saying, John and I never really meant to infer that there are not locality animals I was just leaning more towards the difficulty of proof beyond where an animal was caught.
Of course the reverse is, and has been mentioned, if it was caught there then that's where it's from. Simple as that...that is it's locale.
It's made for a great discussion and has provided interesting points of view.
By the way those are some beautiful okeetees and I don't mean to take anything away from any locality animals.
Hell, I have okeetees and as long as I breed them to okeetees I will call them and their offspring okeetees. Does that make me a hypocrite?...LOL



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