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BBBruno
at Wed Apr 6 06:28:10 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BBBruno ]
...as a colleague and I learned last year with a breeding that was unexpected, unintended, and totally accidental. I had loaned him one of my Northerns and he successfully bred with the female he had; with cage space at something of a premium he later put a female Black Rat in the same cage with him, not for breeding purposes, but to separate the Rat Snake fromm the others he had, a number of locals, and this snake was from a different locale. In short he felt the Rat Snake would be "safe" from breeding with the local animals; she was, but as it turns out, she was not "safe" from the male Pine. Clearly there was a pheromonal attraction in this case.
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