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Kevin Saunders
at Sat Sep 29 21:59:34 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kevin Saunders ]
Domestic dogs may be the same species, but what does that really mean? It means no one has scientifically classified a chihuahua any different from a great dane. That argument doesn't hold any water since a species is a manmade concept. I don't see how you can say chihuahuas and great danes are more similar than ball pythons and blood pythons except by Latin name. Insular forms of many different boas are still classified as Boa c. imperator-the same down to subspecies level. Yet somehow I doubt you'd be fine with crossbreeding all of them, and for good reason. Taxonomy is constantly changing, so there's no sense in saying anything is right or wrong based on what's considered a species at the moment.
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- Hybrids Anybody??? - ratsnakerascal, Fri Sep 28 20:32:19 2007
- Ohhh Boy... - JSpythons, Fri Sep 28 20:43:21 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody?? Not me, LAME - EmberBall, Fri Sep 28 21:36:46 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody??? - dmasio13, Fri Sep 28 22:33:50 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody??? - PHLdyPayne, Sat Sep 29 04:03:31 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody??? - goregrind, Sat Sep 29 06:42:22 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody??? - BuzzardBall, Sat Sep 29 08:00:31 2007
- i find it funny.... - goregrind, Sun Sep 30 06:33:09 2007
- More like Mules, not Mutts - SnakesByDesign, Sun Sep 30 12:36:29 2007
- look what this turned into - ratsnakerascal, Sun Sep 30 16:41:52 2007
- RE: Hybrids Anybody??? - Aaron, Mon Oct 8 22:50:09 2007
- Okay.... - justinmorse, Sun Nov 11 15:50:21 2007
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