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zonatahunt
at Sat Jul 3 18:54:52 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zonatahunt ]
Here is your picture, but modified so you can see the seventh upper labial.
Up to this point I have stayed out of the discussion of whether or not it's a corn snake or a milk snake. There are several things I would like to point out regarding the discussion per this topic so far:
1. You have repeatedly stated that you are simply asking questions because you want to learn. This I can respect. However, how you are going about asking your questions, and in particular what you do with the information provided to you in other forum members responses, in a these than appreciative manner. This is not a direct insult to you, it's just an opinion I offer after watching this whole scenario unfold. By your own omission, yes you keep herps, yet you don't proclaim yourself to be an expert. Wonderful, you are indicating to everyone that you understand your knowledge with herps is limited. Because you lack the knowledge to self-identify the T+ albino found by the OP, you have repeatedly stated that is why you are asking multiple questions. Once again, I applaud your enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. Where I find your behavior less than appealing is your repeated apparent purposeful opposition to information provided to you by forum members who are profoundly more knowledgeable than you regarding the proper identification of the said found milk snake. Now, granted, Jeff can come off pretty damn rude at times, he does make a simple point (if you read between the insults) - based upon his years of hands-on experience with milk snakes, the snake in question is undeniably a milk snake. You repeatedly ask for morphologically distinguishing characteristics that set the snake apart from a corn snake. Many of those characters (i.e., shorter and rounded snout, non-protruding eyes, thicker neck, short and stout body, evenly smooth scales, high number of evenly edged saddles, etc.) have been....
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RE: another pic -- - zonatahunt, Sat Jul 3 18:54:52 2010