Quote Originally Posted by RandyRemington View Post
It's been proposed that in some species albinos can't see as well and this makes them more defensive. Maybe some other mutations cause chronic pain and a grumpy attitude.
Hmm, interesting theory! I hadn't heard that but it does make some sense.

Of all my BPs, my albino is definitely the "snappiest." (I come from the thrashing/peeing/striking big blood python camp, so I kind of find this behavior amusing in a little BP; he's also still a baby, though, so I imagine he'll grow out of it.) All of my other BPs are very tame by my standards. As of last night, all of them also have great feeding responses with F/T rats

All of my other albino snakes (blood, Burm, retic, BCI, sand boa) have been totally tame, however, in some cases tamer than their wildtype counterparts. Also, in hedgehogs, albinos tend to be tamer naturally than wildtype or other mutation colors. However, it's also conventional wisdom that albino rats are the devil -- but, now I'm sure I'll get lots of albino rat owners coming on to dispute that

I tend to agree with Randy that aggression in certain colors or strains of animal has much more to do with the selective breeding of that animal, and less to do with that mutation "making" it mean, for some reason. If the founder of a certain morph happened to be aggressive, his offspring will tend to be aggressive.

... Or, what I've always said is that the prettier/more expensive a snake is, the meaner it'll be 'cuz it knows it can get away with it