Ever think that my spider may be more adapted to this world then your normal?

[Domepiece]

The spider ball python is a mutation or "morph", meaning that a specific gene is different from the normal or "wild type". In this case whatever gene it is that is different effects the all the different aspects of the python that characterize it as the spider morph, this could be anything from a defected enzyme or regulatory protein, but it all comes from the single mutation.

Natural selection controls the genomes that exist within a population, and may select for a mutation that offers a survival advantage. If the spider mutation had a selective advantage, they would be the wild type and we would call them normals.

Spiders do make great morphs to keep though, I love their colors and the wobble gives them lots of personality, they are great feeders and make beautiful combos too.

Not necessarily, it may have been an advantage at a point when the african environment or climate was different or when there were different predators and prey. Things may have changed leaving an opening for the gene of the "normals" we see today and the spider gene may have not been needed any longer. There just isnt enough factors known about ball python morphs in the wild. Maybe in the particular region where alot of spiders are found there is a predator that is detered by the wobble assuming that the snake is ill or maybe there is a type of prey in that region that that the spider gene has specifically adapted to in order to catch. Too many unknowns.