I found this Diamondback on a dirt road yesterday. I have never seen one like it, is it anything special? I wish I had taken more pictures of it.
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Unusual Western Diamondback?
boakid77
Sep 17, 2007 08:57 PM
Replies (5)
lep1pic1
Sep 17, 2007 09:01 PM
Hypo at the least.
Carmichael
Sep 18, 2007 08:09 AM
Did you find this in New Mexico? The reason I am asking is that there is a populuation of these very unusually colored/patterned atrox in N.M (not sure if they are true "hypo's" but still very attractive. They are very stunning.
>>Hypo at the least.
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL
azatrox
Sep 18, 2007 11:47 AM
Yeah, I'm gonna go with hypo as well...Too bad you didn't get a shot of the tail bands...would love to see if they're faded or not...in any event, that's a smokin' animal!
-AzAtrox
BlakeMolone
Sep 18, 2007 04:35 PM
Thats on nice looking animal .Great find!
Upscale
Sep 19, 2007 06:55 AM
Good example of how removing this one snake from the wild could save so many more from being collected. If used in a selective breeding program to establish the hypo, I think a lot of people might like to keep that instead of the far more common “wild” type. I think it’s a beauty.
