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    Re: Commercial Breeding of Giant Snakes

    Quote Originally Posted by nikkubus View Post
    If that is a dream of yours, I would work on finding a group working on a particular species to work with them, because it's going to need to be a large scale to preserve enough genetic variation for something like that to be considered to be released back to the wild, and it would probably require importing wild animals in the first place or working with stock that has been heavily outbred with strong records. They are incredibly strict about that even in heavily endangered species because the animal needs to be able to withstand shifts in the environment.

    @ YungRasputin: Yes, & great care would also have to be taken to ensure that no pathogens from captive non-native animals found their way into snakes bred for release, as that could negatively impact the wild populations- so you might have to limit what you worked with to ensure that didn't happen. I know that some zoos have ongoing projects to produce animals to replenish those in the wild- & I'm not speaking about snakes specifically, I just know that a zoo I used to frequent had such projects going for certain species.
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