Quote Originally Posted by Ax01 View Post
...but i thought that hybrids cannot breed? u can make them, but they cannot have their offsprings. is there some exception? if the hybrids
are indeed sterile, it could slow their growth and expansion. (however slow or small that may be.)....
I'm not positive but I believe you're thinking about some of the unnatural crosses being done for the pet trade that cannot reproduce? Because in the wild, some kinds
do interbreed- Mojave & Southern Pacific rattlesnakes, for example. But rumors* about things like a cross between a rattlesnake & a harmless gopher snake (*started
because gopher snakes, like many other harmless species, vibrate their tails when threatened & to those hysterically afraid of snakes, the tail vibrating in dry brush even
sounds like a rattlesnake sometimes) are totally NOT true, even though they've been circulating for years.

In Florida, it may well be that some of these are making a "new & improved" version to better survive conditions. Nature's always re-inventing the wheel...it's a pity that
such headlines are bound to cause panic in some people and escalate snake-killings.