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Just my observation. Every het leopard i've seen has had a distinct look to it, much different than a normal. then the Leopard would be the super form.

Has anyone discussed this prior?

Several people have discussed this. Many of those who work with them state that they can't be. But I feel they should be considered codominant, or if not the people who state otherwise should be able to explain why "het leopards" show to be distinct fairly regularly from normals. The hypo het leopard litters should be evidence of it.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Questions is...Do you get "het" Leopards from a "het" to normal breeding?

It appears you get a mix of oddities and normal appearing offspring from the few I've looked at. Which of course would be how a visual het morph would pass.

They to me are no different then jungles. Varying levels in the het form up to stand out hets.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

I agree 100%

Not every het. leopard has a distinct look and what do you mean by "distinct" look. Like the hets from Winner ?

I have a litter from two hets. this year. So producing leopards and possible het. leopards. All possible hets. look alike. And all look (like the parents) completely different from what is considered the "het leopard" look (ao. bold dark markings).

Regards,
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Eric Tersteeg
http://www.boaconstrictor.nl

All look similar to this one.

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Eric Tersteeg
http://www.boaconstrictor.nl

which of the three is a 100% het leopard?

n/p
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Thanks Vinnie Caruso
opinons are like a--holes... everybody has one and they all stink

It is hard to tell from a picture.

all three are 100% dbl het albino leopard females.....
the only one in the litter that looks like a true text book het leopard is the middle pic one.

bill why would you say that the first one is a het albino, the speckling or???

I wasn't sure I could see them in the others.
Bill

I've been trying to figure this same thing out. I would say that #2 is the het, because it has "the look" of a het, as the whether this is a trick question and the others are too...I dunno. I just picked up a het leopard that looks a lot like #2. My plan is to breed my het to a normal looking Sonoran...see what pops out

Amie

If you do that, and half the babies have the look you may be on to something...personally I do not think they are "codom or supers)......I have quite a few that if dropped in with normals they will not be able to tell the difference

I'm not sure about the first one, but the bottom two appear to have that look that comes out of leopard X wildtype animals. If the top one is a 100% het leoparad then I'd throw away any theory of leopards being super. It simply doesn't have that look to me even though others believe it does. I personally hold to that theory that the leopard is the super, I guess only time will tell whats going on. It took pete a while to realize that jungles weren't recessive and that the super jungle was actually a super. Trey