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    Question ? Can someone explain what a "Dinker" is ?

    I've seen the term used on the forums. Is it another term for a normal?
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    A 'dinker' is a cutsie name for an animal that looks interesting, and has colors or markings that a person thinks just MIGHT be due to a genetic mutation.

    In other words, it's an animal that you will 'dink around with' to see if you can prove it to be a new morph.

    It is not of any known morph, it just looks like it might have the potential to be a new morph.
    Dinkers are considered to be 'interesting normals' until they are proven otherwise. Many morphs were discovered when someone picked up a 'dinker', and bred it out, and proved it to be genetic.

    Normal ball pythons are extremely variable in color and appearance, which is why most dinkers do not 'prove out'--they turn out to not be a morph, but just an interesting normal, after all.

    Dinkers get some respect, because a lot of the new morphs that are being discovered now are VERY subtle. Morphs such as Russo, Mystic, Trick, and Spector are very difficult to differentiate from normal ball pythons--someone noticed a little 'something' about them, and decided to try to see if it was genetic, and there you go.
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    A dinker is just a snake with some interesting pattern/color that you want to play around with and see if it might be genetic. Usually it turns out to just be a cool normal but occasionally something really cool comes out of it
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    If it werent for dinking around with interesting looking snakes the snake industry/hobby wouldnt be what it is today. I am still blown away by the variety of reptiles available today and that is what makes exotic pets so much more unique and much more fascinating than your domestic "normal" house pets.
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    Lightbulb Re: ? Can someone explain what a "Dinker" is ?

    Thank you! The postings I have read make better sense now.
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    You get the idea from what others have said. Heres a few pics of dinkers:

    http://exoticsrus.net/Ball%20Python%20pics/erj11.jpg

    http://www.ozzyboids.com/IMAGES/IMG_9088.JPG

    *I dont own either of these pics or claim rightst to them, just randomn google images. All credits go towards original owners.*

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    "Dinker" is such a demeaning term for a snake named Royal Python. I like to refer to them as a "Possible"...

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    Re: ? Can someone explain what a "Dinker" is ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vypyrz View Post
    "Dinker" is such a demeaning term for a snake named Royal Python. I like to refer to them as a "Possible"...

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    So when you find a possible you poss around with it?

    Dinking with dinkers sounds so much more fun imo.

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    This little girl is one of my 4 African Dinkers

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