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tvandeventer
at Wed Oct 14 17:19:18 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tvandeventer ]
I discussed this for years until I was red in the face. When the locality craze was just catching on, I was noticing that people would collect in areas that routinely turned out dark snakes. Then one night they get a screamer light-phase blairi. Some years down the road and many dark snakes later, they get another beautiful one. They breed the two brightly colored snakes together and now they are selling "Such 'n Such Locality Gray Banded Kingsnakes!" The babies are nowhere close to typical look of snakes from the area but they were pretty and they sold.
Same thing happened with Boa constrictor constrictor. People picked specimens from Peru, Brazil, Guayana, Suriname, etc., that exhibited the traits they desired, ie, pink groundcolor, "fire engine-red tail," widow's peaks, etc. Now they had a collection of snakes that all looked alike and not at all representative of their respective home regions.
Cheers,
Terry Vandeventer
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RE: locality breeder discussion - tvandeventer, Wed Oct 14 17:19:18 2009