What makes a jungle a jungle? Are these 2 Jungles?
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Jungle Leopards?
jeanne
May 19, 2003 08:52 AM
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ZeR0
May 19, 2003 12:57 PM
I'm pretty sure jungles have to have broken up tails with a kind of broken up swirly pattern on their backs. Sorry im not great at discribing things but while your geckos are very pretty, i dont think they'd be jungles because they have banded tails. L8er
Rob Jenkins
May 19, 2003 04:52 PM
The definition of the jungle morph includes an aberrant body pattern and a tail that isn't banded. I can't really tell in the pictures, but it appears that they HAD banded tails.
It's very hard, because of the way that leos gain spots in what were yellow and white areas of their pattern, once they're grown up, what used to be a true Jungle now looks like a normal or aberrant gecko. Some people will call these geckos Jungle because they were when hatched, but others will argue with you about it. My opinion is that it should still be classified as a jungle because it carries the genes, and Ron Tremper has determined that it is genetic. (others have as well, but since he coined the name, he should be given credit) Now you have to prove that they were true jungles when younger, or they need to keep their characteristic unbanded tail.
Here's a pic of a Jungle adult. What do you think, Monte?
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