It was wrong to bring up any suspicion of motive. My apologies, Tony – I should have thought better of it and addressed any concerns in private.



Again, this really isn’t where I wanted this conversation to go... but here we are.... I don’t see much of the sort of anti-generic sentiment you’re speaking of anywhere but the alterna forum. That said there are definitely those of us who highly value that sort of information (locality data). We aren’t confined to keeping snakes, either. Within herpetoculture, the Chameleon guys, Gecko guys, and Dart frog guys have strong locality-preferring contingencies. Moving outside of herpetoculture, most Cyprinidontiform (livebearers and killifish) and Cichlid aquarists (at least advanced ones) are die-hard locality nuts. The same goes for advanced cactus and succulent horticulturists. These are just examples that I’m familiar with because I’ve been (or am) a part of them. From my every observation, it appears that all of the wildlife-keeping hobbies have a strong locality bent in their advanced members.



-Cole

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