morph VS. temperament

[mpkeelee]

has anyone noticed a difference in attitude in the different morphs?
my pastel likes to hiss, my normal does nothing, she loves poeple.

[Jeremy78]

Bhb did a video of snakebytes on it. Definately a good watch.

[mpkeelee]

ill do a search and check it out

[chago11]

My pastel is a hisser too.

[jason79]

In my opinion they are all individuals and their paint job has nothing to do with temperament.

[mpkeelee]

i know they all have different personalities, but i didnt know if one morph had genes that would make it more prone to being pissy or something.

[Kaorte]

YouTube - SnakeBytesTV "Snakes And Racial Profiling?"

Its this one.

[mainbutter]

Think about this:

1) Consider that temperment is at least partly genetic

2) most morphs originate from a single imported original animal

3) 1 and 2 imply that for any particular morph, all animals of that morph should have at least some resemblance in temperment to the original ancestor, and therefore to each other. This is especially true since we see plenty of line breeding and a lack of outcrossing for many morphs.

The cinnamon trait may not cause a bad temperment, but all cinnamons may have a genetic tendency towards bad temperment, all being directly related to an original cinnamon with a genetic tendency towards bad temperment (lets assume that there aren't multiple lines of cinnamons from multiple imports)

[WingedWolfPsion]

If true, then the bad temperament can be easily bred out in a few generations, as long as folks try.

I have a cinnie with a good temperament.

His 'white snake' rule doesn't stand up, anyhow. I have produced both very sweet-tempered and very nasty albinos.
I have produced extremely docile and extremely snappy pastels, too.

The truth is, may people ignore temperament entirely in their breeding programs, and focus only on the paint jobs.

[stratus_020202]

All of my snakes are gentle tempered. There are so many other factors to figure in too. My two new hatchlings are snippy (becuase they think they need to eat every day!), and my little black pastel wasn't handled much, so he was snippy when I first got him, but he's calmed down a lot.

My normal was my only pet store bought snake, and he is jumpy, but never hisses or strikes (knock on wood). Everyone else, just doesn't care. They just want to sleep, or eat.