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Greetings All,
My friend Uthen Youngprapakorn in Thailand bred these albino siamese crocodiles (Crocodylus siamensis) last year at Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm & Zoo.
He has a pen of several thousand adult siamese crocodiles and has no idea which heterozygote adults bred to produce these rare gems.
Photo was sent by Uthen.
Truly,
Paul Bodnar
Crocodile Wildlife Conservationist
Hello Paul
Wouldn´t the thousands of siamese crocodiles you mention at Samutprakarn be hybrids? Siamensis/porosus
Regards Jonas
There are siamensis and porosus kept together in some ponds, but pure siamensis are also kept seperate, pure porosus are also kep seperate as well.
Most hybrid porosus/siamensis I have seen produced here in the USA are vitually identical to pure siamese. To the extent most experts I know could not visually distinguish which was my pure siamese and which was porosus/siamese hybrid bred in the USA. These were compared at a young age which could also have been a light factor.
Most hybrid porosus/siamensis produced at Samutprakarn that I have seen look like pure porosus.
Kinda of odd but this is what I have noticed, possibly due amount or percentage of split genes in paticular breeders. Other possible factors I have considered would be look of babies produced could very depending on if mother was porosus or siamensis .... this are just my guess.
Oh to add to that .... the owner of the farm doesnt so much count having the species until he has at least 1000 on hand.
But when you have something like 150,000 crocodiles I guess its how you do things.
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