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toyah
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | In answer to your question, I myself find Hybridisation of any species, whether intentional or otherwise, to be very much the wrong road to take. Unnatural selection as opposed to natural selection. There is nothing about the subject which sits comfortably with me at all. To me it is yet again just one more example of the Human specie`s meddling and interfering with nature. |
While I absolutely agree with the sentiment here, the same arguments (unnatural selection, human interference) could be made about captive breeding of animals - we are not selecting the animals in a "natural" way, we are choosing and engineering which animals are allowed to breed with each other. That's human interference and unnatural selection, and when it's done properly it can have wonderful results. Much rather that than keep going back to WC stock to replenish the captive population, IMO.
The problem with owning a hybrid and not breeding from it is that for every person sensible enough to do that, there's another person who won't realise it's a hybrid, or who thinks they can breed it back to a parent species to "make it purebred" again, or who wants to breed it to a third species so he can sell the offspring as something rare, unique, one of a kind in existence, or who plain doesn't care that they're hybrids, they want to breed from them anyway.
Look at domestic hedgehogs - they are true hybrids, all of them - neither of the parent species exists as purebred animals anymore in captivity, which is a real shame. Surely it would be better to have two similar but distinct species to choose from than just one hybrid? |
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JStroud
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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I don't even think this hybrid looks too 'different', in the way the python hybrid market has gone. I've seen prasinus as dark as this, bar the extra melanin on the head so aesthetically it really doesn't do anything for me (and bar the lateral head elongation I don't think it looks too different from any other), I like my prasinus lime green. However I must admit I've never really been too fond of V. becarri, much prefer V. mabitang 
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