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Peru boas with odd or skipped pattern...

Riobravoreptiles Sep 13, 2006 10:46 AM

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That snake was born here last season and is now three feet in length. Photo from today..
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Here's a birth-photo..
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.. you can see there are more with similar aberrancies. In many litters of Peru Boas I have seen a handful of babies with the same types of pattern anomalies, missing or misplaced saddles, in Pucallpa litters and Iquitos babies. The most extreme examples are nearly always delivered dead or with some abnormality. Anything as simple as a kinked tail to a jaw or other head deformity.
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The ones I have kept and raised have so far proven to be normal in all visible ways but the patternless trait in the Peru boas is, I believe, linked to some developmental problem, irregularity or what-have-you.
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Thanks for looking!
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Gus
A. Rentfro
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Replies (3)

slithering_serpents Sep 13, 2006 02:11 PM

n/p

ChrisGilbert Sep 13, 2006 03:15 PM

from the other day. These types of pattern abberations have been attributed to environmental factors. Maybe tweeks in temperature or humidity of the gravid female?

It is interesting.

BrownsBoas Sep 13, 2006 07:57 PM

N/P

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