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Originally Posted by Ryan Beatty
I know this isn't corn related but I have bred a cal-king to a brooks king and the babies looked EXACTLY like eastern chain kings.......coincidence? I think not.
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Yeah, so what?? you just pointed out the
main problem with the very lame point you attempted to make. A brooks king (floridana) x Eastern getula that was man-made on purpose will only get sold and dispersed around the country
AS authentic Eastern Chain kings down the road, only to display weird bizarre "off" intermediate phenotypes here and there randomly later on because of it. Not to mention they would be half bogus man-made crosses. Is it a great thing to
purposely dilute other known to be authentic Eastern getula in hobbyist's collections all over the country originating from say North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, or anywhere else for that matter?. Who cares if they will breed and look fairly similar sometimes? That is even worse than them looking extremely obvious. because most hobbyists can't properly ID a cornsnake from an anaconda to be quite honest.
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Originally Posted by Ryan Beatty
Most colubrids are FAR more closely related than most "purists" want to admit. If these animals were as different as some claim then why would the anery gene in corns be compatible with the anery gene in hondurans? Obviously they had a common ancestry thousands of years ago. I am not saying a honduran is the same as a corn, obviously they are not, but in my opinion the colubrid family tree looks a little more like a family pole than a family bush.
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Again, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?. What does possibly being related thousands of years ago or hundreds of thousands of years ago have to do with some shlep intentionally breeding crosses in his basement and polluting known genuine lineage animals in collections with his intentional man-made crosses for chrissakes??
All I can say is that I am extremely thankful you don't own and work with some of the extremely rare stuff I am working with here. With your mindset you would have them all screwed up in no time and looking like a typical "hobby Hondo" in no time when right now they are the
only known authentic bloodline of
Lampropeltis t.abnorma in the entire U.S. or Europe!
I will sell you some 5 carat cubic zirconia for genuine diamond market value if all that matters to you is if something "looks" fairly close to being authentic when it is clearly NOT!..LOL!!
Also, I will sell you a "clone" fiberglass Shelby Cobra Stallion kit-car for $250,000 as well since it "looks" pretty close to a real one.
~Doug