..... I think there is some nut issue or core argument being played out here that I'm unaware of. Your posts are way too argumentative, sooner or later that will come out. Somebody griping about lineage on something bought or sold, perhaps? I know we have a truck-driver sometime boa-owner who loves to stir-up controversy in here (and he's rollin about this now) but that can't be the whole deal.



I have nothing to prove to you, you are the one making claims and calling names... and who said anything about inbreeding? What are you saying, we should breed Sonoran Boas to Guiana snakes to avoid inbreeding?



Look, friend.. here's a question for you. B. constrictor c. exist all the way from the eastern highlands of Colombia to the atlantic ocean and south in a non-contiguous range potentially comprising millions of square miles. Do you see any difference at all in a redtail from southern Brazil and one from Guyana or Venezuela or Colombia?



Whether or not you see a difference (but if you don't that would explain a lot!) there are differences.. the general change in color, tone, pattern and pattern elements from west to east to south to north is what drives people to seek out these different populations of animals.. why the heqq do we go to the trouble of finding them and shipping them and breeding them? And.. as we get them we notice similarities and differences and they go beyond how many saddles they have (though that is also a characteristic somewhat unique, to a greater or lesser extent, to Boa across their geographical range)..



Now if you want to argue that along the international border between Suriname and Guyana these differences are weak to non-existent.. that's an obvious truth!... Where we do and will disagree is when you say 'Guyana boas and Suriname boas are all identical' ... That's insupportable nonsense just like saying all imperator Boa or even all occidentalis are identical.



Of course if you're sitting on data and images you've collected from your trips down there on animals you've seen and photographed in the wild from all corners of those countries and info on breeding and litter-size and other behaviours from colonies of these animals that you've nurtured from known locales in either region.. don't keep us in suspense! Share the good news!



Be safe.
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Gus

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