I would imagine that there are many jungles out there that would prove to be real deal jungles if breeding were done properly.I think the likelyhood of importing, selecting, and then getting it into the right hands (someone who knows what to do with it to prove it out) is a long hard road, and many are lost along the way.
Look at motleys. There is no mistaking a motley when you see it, but how many do you see imported? If a few were, you would know right away they were motleys, but there are very few that make it to the classifieds.
Jungles would be even harder to come across, or prove out. First, you would need an importer who knew what he is looking for. He would have to have a lot of experience with true jungles in order to chose the ones with the right phenotype. That is hard, considering some breeders have difficulty(thus the phrase "possible jungle", even when dealing with animals that are known decendents of true jungles. Then it would have to be proven out of course. By the time it is proven out, you are back to the same price you are looking at now. There are people out there checking imports for the "qualities", but even with those qualities it aint a jungle until a super jungle it does make.
If you had a group of 1000 connected patterned snakes, it would be easy to pick out a motley.If you had 1000 aberrants, and threw in one slightly abby jungle, I am guessing that more than a few quesses about which one it was would be wrong.If you can't tell it in a group knowing one is there, how can you expect to know there is a jungle when there is a very good possibility that none are? It was mentioned that there are probably jungles sitting in shops right now for 100 bucks. I am sure there are non abby jungles for less than that that will never be proven, or even used in a breeding project.If it were any other morph, it would be recognized by the first boa guy that walked in the door, and raised up for 3 years. Instead, they are probably housed poorly, and sold 3-4 times in their lives to other people through newspaper ads as "redtailed boas". The problem isn't that there are too few out there. The problem is that they are falling into the wrong hands to be proven as jungles.
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Davey Giltner

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