>>I agree with your theory Sean, but I am also sure that a ~~~~~~ of morphs ARE hatched in the wild, but do not survive because of their colour - or lack of it! Normal Ball pythons have a colour and pattination which allows them to blend in with the natural habitat, and so evade their preditors; a Piebald, white or very brightly coloured BP would be less able to blend with the habitat and therefore be seen more easily and predated upon. If this is also correct, the chances of a morph surviving in the wild is very drastically reduced.
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Rob Talkington

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• soo many morphs... - the-mikester, Thu Feb 26 21:22:07 2004
• RE: soo many morphs... - Dominicanthony, Thu Feb 26 21:37:34 2004
• Numbers - RandyRemington, Thu Feb 26 21:56:39 2004
• Just a thought... more... - Exotics by Nature, Thu Feb 26 22:27:02 2004
• RE: Just a thought... more... - the-mikester, Thu Feb 26 23:53:58 2004
• RE: Just a thought... more... - Randall_Turner, Sat Feb 28 09:13:44 2004
• RE: Just a thought... more... - RandyRemington, Fri Feb 27 06:59:26 2004
• RE: Just a thought... one more.. - herpquest, Fri Feb 27 07:33:06 2004
• Exactly why most lucy and albino animals are so rare in the wild. n/p - wideglide, Fri Feb 27 07:51:02 2004
• But shouldnt "churning" the pool dilute rather than amplify mutated alleles - JP, Fri Feb 27 11:50:23 2004
• There really aren't so many morphs. between the color - LooneyLady, Sat Feb 28 00:03:56 2004