Quote Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

My main problem with the chimera theory is that it is happening way too frequently within ball pythons to be probable.

-adam
Quote Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki
10's of thousands of ball pythons are exported from Africa every year and have been for the last 10 years ... due to the ball python "craze", every one of these has been scrutinized for abnormalities by tons of people ... if it was "fairly common", we would know it ... the reality is that it's limited to a small number of captive breedings a year.

-adam
Which is it?

I think science is only getting a handle on the true incidence of chimerism now.

With a morph like ivory or albinism you have the possibility of seeing chimerism visually. No one would look or think twice about the genetics/cellular origins of a "chimeric WT ball python"......