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Hybridizing Elaphe g. g. (Corn snake) with Coluber c. c. (Norther black racer)

BTW, before someone questions whether it can be done...I've seen an offspring...very cool especially when melanin begins to set in. Secondly, the offspring behaive somewhere between the two species...tame but flighty and also have clumsy & "primitive" constriction of prey.

I have seen tame racers and I have seen extremely flighty, bitey corns. You can't just say it is a cross between temperments when demeanor has so much variation with different individuals. You should see some of the clutches of corns I have seen...As for weak constriction of prey, I wouldn't find it that strange considering that many species not known especially for constriction will still sometimes use it, if not for anything more than just restraining the animal while they swallow. I have seen it in Nerodia and others such as Storeria and Diadophis.
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Andy Maddox
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That idea has no point, no vision, I say that cross would be weak.

What would be an example of a point or vision? Seems to me it isn't much "stronger" than most of the other crosses on here.
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Andy Maddox
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MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
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Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry