Jimmy,........when I think "locality", to me it only merely represents where the original parent's came from, nothing more, not that the offspring necessarily represent an exact phenotype template of the snakes from that given area, although often it can work that way. I say this because there are countless snakes that are captured underneath the exact same board, or rock that look absolutely NOTHING alike whatsoever.



I myself, and many people I know have hatched snakes from extremely similar looking locality parents(or even sibling parents), and some of the offspring if you were to put them side by side in a deli cup on a table, people would NEVER guess in their wildest dreams that they came from the very same clutch, and automatically assume they were from a totally different pairing.



Now sure, it is very interesting, and nice to know you may very well have a certain phenotype that represents the look of many other snakes in a given specific area, but it isn't necessarily, or realistically always this way at all. So in short, I take the term "locality" as ONLY referring to the place where the original parents were captured, not that any offspring have to look like the parents. Even 25 years later, the locality will never change, although the phenotypes of the offspring certainly can. My view on it is the original parents of this particular bloodline originated from locality "X", nothing more, and if they wanted to know what filial generation produced the snakes in the deli cup, then that would be passed on as well. It is really that simple to me. Some folks look a bit too deep into it I think, but the locality of any two originating animals will never just magically change and become something else after "X" amount of generations. Those snakes will have ALWAYS descended from parents that originated from locality "X". If a buyer wants more recent generation babies to the parents,...fine, if not,...fine, but it won't change where the parents came from that produced the line. I f they don't like the particular phenotype they see, then they can feel free to go somewhere else and get a snake that fits what THEY THINK is what it should look like



This reminds me of certain people that will label a bullsnake, for example..."het for Stillwater hypo"..LMAO!!. A snake CANNOT be "het" for a locality!!, the snake is then only het HYPO, but certainly not het for "Stillwater". It is then simply a non-locale(or generic) het hypo animal, ....simple as that.









cheers, ~Doug
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