If we are going to ask eachother questions, why isn't your yard and whole area full of albinos?

You see, they are selected against, or they would be common or even take over normal colored individuals, but they don't.

Or at least they haven't. Which is the beauty of natural selection. It does what it does, it keeps the animals in check for each and every locale. And as conditions change, the phenotype can change with it. Its a song and a dance.

In captivity, its a different song and dance.
If you take that albino Cuban treefrog(feral/invasive) species, and back breed it, you will express tens of thousands of albino frogs, which is your intend, yes? Now compare the treefrogs in your yard to the ones in your cages.

There is reason, your back yard is not full of albinos.

Also, its about time, outside conditions can indeed support morphs, like striped snakes that were normally blotched(an example) but normally only for short periods of time. Say a decade or less. Then the population will return to normal.

Such morphs as axanthics and striping etc, are indeed normal to other species, so it takes a little more time to clean up.

Now take your model, albinos and change it to hybrids, which do occur on a very regular basis, they like your albinos they are also cleaned up and disappear. They are selected against.

They disappear because they are unfit for the conditions they must live in. Which does not make them mutts or any the the derogatory names you guys apply to captive crosses. In all reality, captive crosses for all but the most extreme cases of deliterious inbreeding, are FIT for captivity. You just do not happen to like them and that is YOUR right. But to call them names because you do not like them, makes you the derogatory name.

All in all its about human behavior, and what your doing(how your acting) with your buddies, are wanta be elitists, that is, you want want your doing to be elite, but then so is what others are doing(ones with crosses) so it ends up being very human silly games that do not have a thing to do with the snakes/frogs etc.

Now for one last crazy biological thought, every species, every local type, started from a morph/cross/hybrid. They evolved, which means they are different then what the came from. Cheers

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