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I got this female last year, and bred her to a patternless male, She laid 2 eggs and one came out normal and the other came out jungle striped just like her mother looked like as a baby. Here is mom and offspring, I was wondering if anyone had heard of a Co-Dom Jungle Trait? Is there any Co-Dominant traits in leopards? Let me know what you think.

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"Life is a Safari"

nice, but the baby is not a jungle, or a stripe, it would have to have broken tail bands, or a stripe running down the tail to be considered a jungle/stripe, vant see the big ones tail..but i'm guessing its banded also?

anyway..the Giant is co-dominant, jungle and stripe if i am not mistakem are selectivley bred traits, but if you bred a non jungle to a jungle and you got a jungle baby, it is co-dom, same for stripe
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Dan Quinn
Manhattan Herps

All I know is The mother had a stripe down her back, as a baby, and When we bred her to a patternless male, she had 2 eggs, both hatched, and one was normally banded, and the other had the same style stripe running down his back. Here is a pic of the 2 babies only days after they hatched. I was told that the mother was a jungle stripe. When I saw the baby I thought maybe it was a co-dom trait. I guess I will have to keep breeding her and her babies to see if I keep getting abberant babies. The new copy of "The leopard gecko in captivity" by robbie hamper shows a pic of what they call an open stripe. And they also show a pic of what they call Jungle and both have banded tails??? Its the newest book out on Leopards..So???

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"Life is a Safari"

Your male patternless could be het for jungle. I'm pretty sure this is the case with my male patternless.

There are also a lot of instances where jungle traits don't tend to behave as simple dominant / recessives. I've produced a fair number of abberent babies (irregular body banding, normal tail banding)and even one jungle from breeding some of my jungle females to normal males with no jungle genes.

-Alice

If the tail is banded, it is NOT a jungle..... You could not even consider that a stripe either..... That looks like a reduced pattern at best..... Nice looking leos though.... None of my babies are ever born with regular banding but the are not jungles..... The tail says it all.....