It is well known that you have no love of morphs, however many of us do. It is a slap in the face of anyone working with jungles for you to insinuate that they are just 'normal' boas. Yes, many litters can show a few abnormal saddles...that doesn't make them jungles. It's when those abnormal saddles cover a large portion of the boa and prove heriditary that changes the definition. I personally have a juvenile showing a partial jungle pattern (roughly 1/3 to 1/2 her length) that I'm hoping to prove out when she's grown. She was produced by my best friend last year in a litter that also contained a partial reverse stripe and several other boas showing jungle-like patterning, though to a lesser degree than my girl. Does it mean we work any less than you to produce our litters? No, it doesn't. If others like us like these abnormal patterns, why not refine them by selective breeding to bring out more of the trait. It's no different than breeding for color or pattern in any other boa...the pattern just happens to be considerably different than the norm, your opinion not-with-standing.



Raven

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