Why have only one spider and pinstipe ever been found in bush?

[Piebald Dave3]

Hello everyone,

I have been wondering why only one spider and one pinstripe have ever been found in the bush? Both these morphs are dominant so you would think that they would have mulitplied rather quickly in the wild yet no more have ever been found.

Did the extreme patterns on these morphs make them very poor in camoflague and they just don't survive long, but them albino's have been found in the bush at full size? I am just throwing this out there to see what some people thing.

So what do you guys/gals think?

Dave

[King's Royal Pythons]

From what I understand, there has been more than 1 spider found in the wild.

[EverEvolvingExotics]

I've wondered similar thoughts as well.

[purplemuffin]

It's true that we don't find them as often as yellowbellies or... well, anything else in the BEL complex though. Interesting!

[cmack91]

im waiting for someone to report a panda pied or caramel pied coming from the wild lol jk. but really i dont know, its probably the aliens

[TheSnakeEye]

Great point. Very interesting.

[Freakie_frog]

Deformed animals like pieds,pinstripes,spiders ect stick out like a sore thumb in the African bush. Because of that they make easy targets for predators. Think of all the bad ass morphs like the banana that have been eaten by other critters long before people started looking for them

Side note there has only ever been one spider found in the wild.


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[cmack91]

Deformed animals like pieds,pinstripes,spiders ect stick out like a sore thumb in the African bush. Because of that they make easy targets for predators. Think of all the bad ass morphs like the banana that have been eaten by other critters long before people started looking for them

Side note there has only ever been one spider found in the wild.


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one? haha, i wonder how bad the wobble was from being so stressed out by being in the wild then captivity

[snake lab]

Why do you think only one has ever been found? The thing everyone who doesnt know should realize is that most stuff coming out of africa isnt being picked from the bush. They are doing a ton of captive breeding now. they still pluck all the gravid girls they can find in the bush then hatch the eggs and ship em here. We the general public dont hear about everything that comes out of africa. There are guys that hand pick animals and keep em under wraps. I dont think for a second that only one of any wild caught codom morph has ever been found. Something had to produce it if it was a baby and something was bred by it if it was breedable.

[Atherosdragon]

they have to attracted to each other to mate in the wild maybe the african wild ladies think spiders and pinstripes are ugly...lol