Jungle Ball Python? (Major Load Warning)

[SnakeKittyFishy]

This guy was sold to me as a 'jungle ball python'. I'm not sure what specifically is different about them. After doing research I found little info so I'm going to ask my new friends here Included are pics of Darigan the jungle, he has very yellow-gold coloration with a black background all over except for on his head/neck. He is a year and 3 months old. Also included is my 3-ish month old blackback female Zaphira with nice orange coloring for comparison. I tried to make the pics nice to make IDing nicer ^_^ Enjoy and hopefully can get some input

[bad-one]

Looks like a beautiful normal

[BGdyl]

Nice! Definitely has Jungle characteristics, the green eyes, light color, and the wacky alien heads. Although it's subtle, I say you have a Jungle.

[SnakeKittyFishy]

Nice! Definitely has Jungle characteristics, the green eyes, light color, and the wacky alien heads. Although it's subtle, I say you have a Jungle.

Thank you! So those are what classifies him as a jungle huh? Any other things that I should look for in him? Other defining characteristics that make him a jungle?

[SnakeKittyFishy]

I'm wondering now what type of female morph I should try breeding him with... I was thinking pastel.. any thoughts?

[Serpent_Nirvana]

My impression of the term "jungle" was that it is primarily a descriptor of a pattern that tends to prove not to be genetic -- similar to "harlequin."

That said, the "pastel jungle" line of pastels tends to consistently throw a similar pattern, so perhaps it does have a genetic basis.

[sho220]

High gold normal

[mainbutter]

"Jungle" is synonymous with:

-wild type
-normal
-I'm kinda brown/gold with alien heads

I love the coloration on your new pickup! A fine example of a wild type ball python.

[SnakeKittyFishy]

Thanks everybody Sometime in the future I'll breed him and see what he produces, see if he passes on his neat pattern..

[DemmBalls]

It looks like a nice busy patterned normal to me. I bred a similar girl to my pastel last season and got a nice busy patterned pastel from her. Could be a fun dinker.