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I never knew that! I really appreciate you teaching me more about differentiating Black Headed Pythons locales by their scale counts . Also really cool to know you've raised some yourself and spent time in Australia with this wonderful species.
It's a bit humbling to see how many Aussie keepers keep and catalog their animals - in terms of localities. People in this Country do it with pines, gophers, bulls, kings and other native animals. There is an amazing diversity sometimes going simply from county to county and it's an excellent way to celebrate and keep true that diversity.

Unfortunately in some circles we stifle that diversity for the sake of aesthetics. True black tailed cribos can often be found in various central american localities with browned out tails. Well, some arbiter somewhere decided a pretty cribo doth not a brown tail make - so they are deemed an inferior animal, not true to some imaginary standard.

How many people on this dedicated forum know what differences lie between ball pythons that hail from different localities in Africa? I'd guess a miniscule number seeing as color morphs rule the roost. But stop for a sec and imagine how neat cataloging the subtle differences in geographical variants and breeding true to those localities would be.

I can't count the number of woma localities, stimson's localities and the like. Then you come here and people are claiming locality specific animals without any proof of origin. Years ago when many Australian species first became available, we had no idea where the animals were coming from. Now years and years later, people can all of a sudden pin-point their origin. No knock on you - just a somewhat jaded observation of marketing techniques in this hobby.