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Geez that is a pretty snake. Much better than corns I see in stores that have been so overbred they are just ugly. Nice pics.
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You can still buy captive guttata that look like that, but I think they sell them by locality (I think the "oketee" corns look similar to that one). Interesting point about them being bred into ugliness. I agree. It's funny that no matter how much selective breeding or even hybridizing there is, nothing we develop will compare to the beauty of a wild specimen. Don't bring that up on the hybrid forum though. Larbyhunnylamb was quite willing to go to war with me over that issue.
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>>You can still buy captive guttata that look like that, but I think they sell them by locality (I think the "oketee" corns look similar to that one). Interesting point about them being bred into ugliness. I agree. It's funny that no matter how much selective breeding or even hybridizing there is, nothing we develop will compare to the beauty of a wild specimen. Don't bring that up on the hybrid forum though. Larbyhunnylamb was quite willing to go to war with me over that issue.
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>>without electricity, we'd be watching television in the dark

I think it's good that we have two camps on this. That way one can keep the locale genes pure and keep the variety while the other can experiment with the genes they like to breed an animal that will satisfy the public and take some pressure off wild caught pops. I like to try to get the best genes into my hybrid corn to get sort of a "super" corn. I work with the most southerly localities (TX) which tend to have some problems adapting to northern climes and are kind of large..not too pretty either. When combined with a northerly strain and a pretty Eastern corn, you get a smaller, hardier, prettier snake...

TC

I am haveing a hard time beliving you caught that perfect okeetee corn in the wild. Where do you live?
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