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FR
at Tue May 11 11:30:38 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Try this, breed a pure corn to a pure Yellow rat. Then breed the babies back to the pure adults. Look at those offspring and see if you can find wild animals that look like them.
You see, After back breeding, all you get is a little odd, now something that looks exactly halfway between the two.
Even with captive crosses, like a corn to a yellow rat. You only get a few in the clutch that look halfway, most look more like one adult or the other.
There is a point here, most herpers are or were VERY naive as to what a hybrid looks like. So they do not know what to look for. Nothing against them, but they have no experience or education to actually know what a hybrid is.
Now a days, we all know that different species can breed and produce viable offspring, in the past, that was not the case. In the past it was thought that ALL hybrids were mules. Unfortunately, that is only true with horses and donkys. As it appears many many hybrids are fertile, and that includes other animals like birds and mammals. Cheers
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RE: Really? - FR, Tue May 11 11:30:38 2010