With how easy it is to breed boas, I believe there is, or easily could be a surplus of captive bred baby's. I still have yearlings that I am in no rush to sell, but I there is definately a surplus in my area.

Third world countries are slooowly catching on that they can make more money through eco-tourism than by destroying and harvesting their natural resources. Who wouldn't want to go and photograph these awesome critters in the wild. If Joe-Poorguy can sell boas to an importer for 2bucks each, I'd giv'm five to photograph them. Now I'm stuck here in Canada where there aint no boas, but their are millions of fortunate people that don't let air fare get in their way.

For the elite breeders that have a lot of capital investment into their collections/businesses, a few wild-caught animals to add to the genetic diversity, and god-forbid another morph, is entirely understandable.

There are plenty of species where wild-caught animals are necessarily outnumbering the captive bred's (surinam toads), but boa constrictors (and ball pythons for that matter) are not one of them.
Ian

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• Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - calienteA1, Mon Aug 22 22:11:04 2005
• RE: Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - rainbowsrus, Tue Aug 23 00:29:54 2005
• I agree and disagree - BOASELECTER, Tue Aug 23 03:07:50 2005
• I definately agree with that point!! np - rainbowsrus, Tue Aug 23 03:24:00 2005
• RE: Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - StonedReptiles, Tue Aug 23 03:13:28 2005
• RE: Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - joeysgreen, Tue Aug 23 05:03:04 2005
• RE: Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - madisonrecords, Tue Aug 23 07:08:57 2005
• RE: Wild Caught VS. Captive Born - tcdrover, Tue Aug 23 11:11:35 2005
• yeah, LTC is not Longer Than Checks-take-to-clear ; - ) np - rainbowsrus, Tue Aug 23 16:50:25 2005