Re: A few of our gray bands
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Originally Posted by
Brandon Osborne
Very nice! I don't have locale data on my animals, but I still love them. Really fun little kings.
In all honesty I think the locality thing is a bit overplayed on these guys. Some localities have quite a bit of overlap in phenotypes and I doubt that many populations are actually cut off from neighboring gray band populations. The segregation due to assumed location of parental stock can actually lead to line bred "morphs" that don't match the diversity seen in the wild. (See jungle carpet pythons, northern blue tongue skinks, red acanthurus monitors, etc.)
Re: A few of our gray bands
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Originally Posted by
jmugleston
In all honesty I think the locality thing is a bit overplayed on these guys. Some localities have quite a bit of overlap in phenotypes and I doubt that many populations are actually cut off from neighboring gray band populations. The segregation due to assumed location of parental stock can actually lead to line bred "morphs" that don't match the diversity seen in the wild. (See jungle carpet pythons, northern blue tongue skinks, red acanthurus monitors, etc.)
I tend to agree. Same goes with chondros and florida kings, which I've been keeping for many years. Line breeding will eventually change the appearance of locality animals.
