IMO, too the purists they have no purpose. Its a man-made animal that has no relevance or existence outside of captivity. Plus the issue of the unwanted animals being sold off as specific subspecies exists (both for hybrid and integrade animals). There are locality buffs that keep and propogate colonies of naturally occurring populations of integrades from specific areas, but do not practice integrading subspecies in captivitiy for the sake of producing a non-natural animal. Its just more or less a no-no. For the folks who practice hybridization/integration, the only rule appears to be the creation of a unique, desirable and marketable animal.

The main argument against it the ethics issue of selling "tainted" babies as pure subspecies.

KevinM

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