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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl
Unless we're talking about geographically isolated animals, how do we know the genetic purity of an animal? For instance, there seems to be a bit a of hostility towards the ultra/ultramel corn snake gene, because it supposedly came from a Corn x Gray rat snake pairing. But considering the way in which most North American rat snakes naturally hybridize, how do we know that other wild caught morphs didn't arise from a pairing of a corn snake with another rat snake?
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I have no problem with natural intergrades or hybrids, but I just wish people put more effort into keeping lineage/history on these animals. For example in the carpet python world I can't tell whether a carpet is a jungle, jungle x diamond, junglexdiamondxjag sibling...etc just by looking at it. So many of these carpets have unknown lineages. I like coastal x jungles or coastal x diamond intergrades. They naturally intergrade in the wild but people irresponsibly do not keep track of these blood lines and they just go into the market as "unknown".
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