Has anyone seen or even have pics of an albino or amelanistic spectacled cobra? I could be mistaken but I may have heard ("Reptiles" November 1996 Mailbag-I think) that hybridization has been instrumental in passing the albino gene to species that are similiar (i.e. Egyptian Sand Boa to Kenyan Sand Boa or Pacific Gopher snake to San Diego Gopher)and I was wondering if anyone else has attemted to produce Albino Spectacleds using this method from Albino Monocleds. Yes, I know if an albino spectacled was somehow produced by means of this it would essentially have Kaouthia in its background thus hindering the purity but I was just curious.
Another question>>> While on this subject, has an albino Crotalus Ruber been produced (via above mentioned means only this time with an Albino Atrox somewhere in its ancestry)? Sorry, I LOVE RATTLERS WITH COONTAILS!! (atrox, scutes, rubers)
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Albino Spectacled Cobra question
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Go to venomousreptiles.org click on photos. Click on first elapid gallery and got to page 33 top left hand corner and there is a pic of an albino Naja naja.
Thanks man!!! A truly magnificent animal. I just wish there was a shot of the back of its hood whilst flaired. I wonder when these will be readily avaiable?
I dont know. I did not see the date on the pic. I am sure it won't be any time soon. And I am sure they will be quite expensive. The snakes were from a zoo.
The last I heard about them, which was earlier this year, is that there is a zoo in India that has 11 or so of them. From what I was told, that's all there is in captivity.
That must be the pic on venomousreptiles.org
