If you look at all the animals as a whole, mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles, they ALL seem to reproduce at the same time. Why is this you ask??



1. By animals all hatching/birthing at the same time, it gives them a greater chance of survival. The sheer volume of baby animals in the spring helps ensure their survival.



2. Another way to give an animal a higher survival rate is to be born/hatched in the spring. This way they have all summer to grow and have plenty of food available. What do baby predators eat?? Other baby food items! This is one way Nature has balanced the survival of her animals. All born/hatched at the same time. Granted, mice breed year round, but probably heaviest in the spring/summer months. Baby bass eat other baby fish, baby water snakes eat baby fish, tadpoles and baby frogs. Just one big circle of life.



Things that make you go hmmmmm.....

Brian
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RATS

1.0 Corn snake "Warpath"(KY locale)

1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)

1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)

1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)

1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)

0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)

1.0 Great plains rat snake "Reign Fire" (TX locale)

1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)



RACERS

1.0 Eastern Yellow Belly racer "Nightcrawler" (MO locale)



KINGS

1.1 California king snake "Bandit" & "Moonstar" (Coastal phase)

1.1 Prairie king snakes "Bishop" & "Askani" (KY locale)

0.1 Black king snake "Domino" (KY locale)

1.1 Desert Kingsnakes "Gambit" & "Psylocke"

0.1 Florida Kingsnake "Shard"

0.1 Speckled Kingsnake "Haven"



MILKS

1.0 Eastern/red Milk intergrade "Cable" (KY locale)

1.0 Eastern/Red Milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)



BULLS/GOPHERS/PINES

0.1 Sonoran Gopher "Husk"

1.0 Kankakee bull (Phil Peak stock)



Good luck and Happy Herping

Brian

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