Having seen the evidences presented here I have to stand on my original statement that it is "MORE" interegrades than Hybrids



Jorge,

You can't be serious about using this thread for determining the amount of hybrids or anything else. I used to have a list of natural hybrids and since lost that list when my computer crashed. Also the evidence here by a few people is hardly exaustive information. There was a lot more information in the past years posted here on this subject.I suggest you do a search here.



Now there is a difference between the amount of intergrades and sheer volume of intergrades out there. if you want to call them that.. Lets say for example the intergrade zone for eastrn kings. They intergrade with florida kings to the south and other kings to the north. So the sheer volume of the "zone' is huge. The Florida kings x eastern zone goes 300 miles into Florida from the GA border. Not to mention an intergrade is really a debatable subject in itself. Is an intergrade pure?



Rosy boas are almost all intergrades of one mountain range to rock plie to another where isolated pops have a certain look and some of those drift inbetween to breed with other different looking localities. i look at Kingsnakes the same way. They are all intergrades. It is the isoloated pops that develope a certain look and thus we claim this is the example of what they should look like from that location. Then when we find another darker , lighter, striped, banded, mottled version we claim it must be an intergrade.



Anyway there is lots of info from past discussions if you use the serach function. FR has a lot of info but also did not chime in because this has been discussed so much. Also if TonyD is reading this I hope you have that list of the breakdown of natural hybrds, unnatural intergrades etc. That is always a good place to start for folks just looking into this.



here is a thread i just found from 2009 after using the search function. But there are tons more threads on this subject with lots of good info:



http://forums.kingsnake.com/viewarch.php?id=1713330,1713330&key=2009
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