and pattern morphs. How many are we talking about as soooo many?

Consider the type of designer morphs that Kevin has created as the only likely animals not from nature.

There are pied,albino and lucy in mammals, birds and reptiles. Rare certainly,but there.

Patterns in rats and mice are reproduced through selective breeding the same as all other animals, including ball pythons.

Rarely will you see the same markings on cows or horses unless it is an isolated trait carrying animal, being bred for these traits.

Isolating the animals for the color or patterns and creating breeding colonies is what is making the animals appearant in our culture, that and the obvious financial drive in the hobby/bussiness. The Clark albino and the Kahl Piebald. Very succesful colonies with outbreeding hets for strengthened bloodlines have over a decade made pied hets and albinos financially realistic and relatively available to the public as well as the private breeder.

Now about the wild. The three countries where these animals come from naturally are third world countries and the residents use these natural resources(ball pythons) as food and hide.Along comes a western interest in captive keeping of these animals and what might be an obsene amount of money being offered for these animals and low and behold out of country interested brokers get involved and offer decent earnings for rare animals to the locals. So before killing these guys they sell them to the brokers, who in turn contact the professional breeders for their financial offerings.From the field to America.

Consider now this is about the month when most of the imported ball pyhons come into the country(US).People will be selling thousand and hundred lots of animals.Picked through for visable morphs, the rest sold in cheap lots. Some will post high yellow or looks like animals and ask more money for them. The nature of the currupt industry.

There is a person looking to sell a gravid burgundy for $700. How ethical is twice shipping a gravid animal in the winter and asking a low price for the animal. Clearly the animal is not a burgundy.Be careful of the ethically challenged.

Anyway, I dygress.The morph animals are not so that many until we get them. And honestly, some of the animals Kevin has come up with are true works of art.It is a great hbby with a fantastic return in the investment.

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