>>Here is my answer again!

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>>I don't think this has ever been the goal. I believe the Ideah is that with Ball Pythons for example, in such large quantities and in much higher quality than fresh imports, then this would releive pressure to import wild animals. Why would you buy a freshly imported Ball with all the problems associated with them, when you can buy a super nice captive bred one? This is how we help the situation hopefully. Prices come down drastically for wild imports and thus they become less lucrative for the people catching and selling them.

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>>King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?

>> J Sierra



Yes, exactly.



Also, if there was a species which needed help being re-established to the wild, etc., it would be very easy to outcross even heavily bred morphs to unrelated morph animals, and produce phenotypically "normal" offspring.



Also, morphs do occur in the wild, and there are even some localities of certain species where morphs / mutations are even common. I am thinking of anerythristic corns in Florida and a population of albino Japanese Ratsnakes in Japan.
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-Toby Brock

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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