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There are a lot of people, myself included, that when talking about their snakes have said "Well, it's just a normal but isn't it beautiful?"

Normal makes it sound so inferior, so boring. I propose we change it to something more exciting that better fits our stunning "normals". Perhaps then people won't try so hard to think that every amazing animal has to be some kind of new morph.

(I know it is impractical to think we can change the whole industry standard, but wouldn't it be nice?)
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All my Children: 0.2 female humans (1 is 10 and the other is a 6 month old hatchling), 1 Saint Bernard, 2 maine coons, 15 leopard geckos, 1 pacman frog, 1 oscar, 1 jack dempsey, 1.1 ball pythons, and "Lilith" the black meowing kitty

couldnt agree more. How about "Original" That way it can have two meanings. Original as in the original form of all ball python morphs, and original as in what an original snake! So nice!hehe

Is "wild type". Only problem is, a lot of the morphs are found as is in the wild.
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Agreed. "Wild type" is the usually accepted name for most other species.

VOT

Yeah, I thought about "wild type" but ran into the same issue... that a lot of ball morphs developed on their own and not with the careful pairing of a breeder. But since the "norm" is the "wild type" I think we're perfectly justified in switching to that....so wild type it is!!
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All my Children: 0.2 female humans (1 is 10 and the other is a 6 month old hatchling), 1 Saint Bernard, 2 maine coons, 15 leopard geckos, 1 pacman frog, 1 oscar, 1 jack dempsey, 1.1 ball pythons, and "Lilith" the black meowing kitty

Ok not trying to be a pest here since I'm totally new to this snake thing but a.) I agree normals can be very pretty and I love mine and wouldn't trade them for anything b.) the way the term morph is used rankles me because "normal" is a "morph" too it's just not hyped up. I like the terms original and wild type and I myself might be inclined to say common since I'm fairly certain they are the most commonly occuring in nature or in captivity but I might be wrong about that. Besides saying common might perplex people in an amusing way

I've noticed it used frequently when there is a predominate form of a species and several sub-species. For some reason the term hasn't caught on with BP's. My first exotic snake was a "common boa" I bought at a pet shop in 1979 ($25.00, I couldn't afford a ball python, they were over $100.00).
Paul