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Lindsay Pike
Urotopia Uromastyx

HEHEH! LOTS of variety Lindsay and thanks for posting them!
Todd Hughes

...you had better send the red one in the middle to me so it won't contaminate the gene pool...
>>daveb

Daanng! Check out those red ones! Sweet!

reako45

They just have not finished the process yet. In nature their next task is to survive. Natural will indeed cull out the colors and patterns that do not fit the conditions of the time.

This culling is also not exactly a short term process, it does occur quickly, death from not surviving, and over longer periods. For instance, odd colored individual often do reach reproductive age, but because their genes are often recessive, they are soon to stay that way, recessive. Its merely about numbers, few recessives, and millions upon millions of dominates.

So the combination of low survivorship and lack of oppertunity usually condems odd color and patterns. Cheer and very nice snakes

Some of it I has to do with what nature can support, I think.

Central and South America will be interesting to watch as far as frogs go in the next 50 years. The fungus has wiped out huge populations, but some remnant populations exist, and it while some species may be doomed forever, it would not surprise me if some of the remaining frogs have evolved or will evolve a resistance to the fungus, something nature did not need to select for before.

With the number of frogs being quite a bit lower than what the environment can support, it would not surprise me if there were a better chance of the unusual frogs surviving, and perhaps even having an opportunity to speciate if the populations are isolated enough (though that may take awhile).
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3.0 WC; 0.1 CB L. getula californiae
0.1 CB L. pyromelana pyromelana
0.1 WC; 10 eggs (7/11) Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata