I do not think the amount of chromosomes would have anything to do with viability of the cross... If anything, reptile hybrids have kind of turned what many think in terms taxonomy upside down and back again... Carpet pythons crossed with balls, burms crossed with retics, condros crossed with balls, womas with carpets kings/corns, corns/bulls, and the list goes on... Not only do these crosses work but their offspring are just as fertile as the parent species...



At this point I do not think any reasonable cross would be impossible to create... All it takes is to have the two right animals paired up at the right time...



I agree that the Western and Southern would make a much better cross and I believe the look of the animals would be much nicer than a Western/Eastern cross for sure... I also think it would "take" more naturally being the Western and the Southern are much more closely related, but I still believe the Eastern Western cross is very reasonable and possible...

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• Intergrade? - delphi22, Fri Aug 27 14:44:36 2010
• RE: Intergrade? - Gregg_M_Madden, Fri Aug 27 15:04:04 2010
• That's not ab Intergrade? - Jon R, Fri Aug 27 16:15:45 2010
• RE: That's not ab Intergrade? - delphi22, Fri Aug 27 16:25:46 2010
• RE: That's not an Intergrade? - Rextiles, Fri Aug 27 21:56:09 2010
• RE: That's not ab Intergrade? - Jon R, Sun Aug 29 00:41:41 2010
• Typo. ab=an - Jon R, Fri Aug 27 16:27:30 2010
• RE: Intergrade? - delphi22, Fri Aug 27 16:23:40 2010
• RE: Intergrade? - Gregg_M_Madden, Fri Aug 27 17:30:19 2010
• Anyone know if chromosomes match on the - krhodes, Sat Aug 28 06:59:58 2010
• RE: Kevin - Gregg_M_Madden, Sat Aug 28 08:57:29 2010
• Hybrid Heterodon - CBH, Sat Aug 28 14:32:29 2010