Whats the problem with 2 species interbreeding with eachother? Because eventually I want to have 1 male and 2 females of each of the 4 subspecies- Floridas, Gulf Coasts, Three Toeds, and Easterns.
-Tony C
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Whatrs The Problem With...
TonyC130
Jul 10, 2007 05:15 PM
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Rouen
Jul 11, 2007 09:08 PM
if you look through the past posts you'll find the answer.
PHBoxTurtle
Jul 16, 2007 09:08 PM
Tony, the problem in my opinion is there would be a mixing of the individual characteristics that make each species unique. You will no longer have something unique, but will end up with diluted characteristics. An example, in some countries many dogs run wild and they interbreed and what you end up with after many dog generations is a medium size, plain, brown dog. All the variations that took years to develop disappears! In the case of box turtles, it was living in diverse ecologys and the DISTANCE that made them unique and interbreeding, if done over generations, it may produce something akin to the "plain brown dog".
There are likely no physical reasons, expect some husbandry issues may be different for some species, but the issue, at least for me, is ethical. Why mess with something that is already perfect just because we can?
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