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Kind of slow over here, so I thought I would ask:

I still consider myself a newbie here, but I have spent a lot of time checking out the forums on Kingsnake.com.
I checked out the "hybrid discussion" Wow those people are a bit whacked out. Hope I don't offend anyone here. There are some people over there talking about mix breeding everything under the sun.
Now my question is....some snakes do this naturally right? Is that what people have been calling an "intergrade"
Also, there was some suggestion over there about gophers or bulls breeding with rattlesnakes. That is a joke right? I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen.
Like I said some of those people are whacked out.
I found out my creamsicle corns are hybrids (the guy didn't mention that when I bought them, I just thought it was a different color of cornsnake, not a cornsnake mixed with a ratsnake)

Naturally occurring intergrades are animals from areas where the ranges of two subspecies meet. These animals show characteristics of both subspecies or some characters intermediate between the two subspecies. For example, "greenish" rat snakes from Georgia and South Carolina are intergrades between the black rat snake and the yellow rat snake.

Man-made intergrades are the babies resulting from humans crossing good representatives of two different subspecies. For example, mating a black rat snake from Pennsylvania with a yellow rat snake from central Florida would produce man-made intergrades or subspecies crosses.

All crosses between bullsnakes and Pacific gopher snakes would be man made, because the bullsnake's range does not meet the Pacific gopher snake's range.

The stuff about bullsnakes crossing with rattlesnakes is a joke. Mind you, that cross would be a real feat if someone pulled it off, but as far as I know, nobody has even tried.

Paul Hollander