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I'll use this as the example: Jungle x Normal. Now I know you will get some jungles out of the litter. My question is how do you know for sure which ones are the jungles? I have seen some babies produced that have the jungle look to them and I've seen some babies from the same litter called jungles and to me they almost looked normal. Also, wouldn't it be possible for a simply aberrant baby to come out of the same litter and be mistaken for a jungle?

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If I am correct, Peter Kahl bred jungles to stripe line boas (I would not be surprised if other people have also) so I assume there are a few jungles out there with het. for stripe. Could there not be a situation where one of these jungles are bred to another stripe or. het stripe animal and create striped boas (not actual jungles)? Is what I'm saying making any sense?

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Color should set most of them apart. Although I would think there would be a higher percentage that are harder to call because of the stripe gene factor.

The reason I ask is because we all know the stripe line of boas have more color then the normals. This is a hard one isn't it?

I would agree that many stripe line animals have exceptional coloration.

However, the color that we are talking about here in the Jungles is a very distinct, Yellowish Beige or yellowish ivory color as babies which I have seen develop into anywhere between a bright neon yellow to a golden yellow coloration as adults.

I have NEVER seen a non-Jungle Boa have exactly this type of coloring. I have seen MANY very yellow colored boas, both babies and adults. In fact, a new friend of ours brought in a big female he picked up at a show that was just screaming yellow AND had a bunch of aberrancies. However, and I understand that this is not only hard to describe but hard to understand, the coloring was distinctly different than that of the yellow coloration of Jungle Boas.

And like I've said in the past and I'll say it again now...when in doubt, breed it and prove it out (or not). That's the only real answer to any of these "is it or isn't it" type questions.

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Celia
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As Celia said, its a distinct yellow tan coloration. Also, there is a bigger distinction between lateral and dorsal colorations.

Although I have never seen one in person (only in a picture), there can be jungles that do not have that big distinction. In those rare cases, it might be hard to distinguish a stiper from a jungle, although there are more jungle traits than just color to look for.