Re: Here's a novel idea...

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Posted by CD on December 02, 1999 at 07:46:31:

In Reply to: Re: Here's a novel idea... posted by Michael on December 02, 1999 at 01:20:07:

It is not my intention to initiate another debate on this topic, so at this point I will not go into the various reasons why people get "all up in arms" about it as you say.
I will however address a couple of statements you made.

>Most people do not even sit back a realise that there are all kinks of crosses out threre that you may even own like:Candycane corns, Creamscile corns, Bublegum Rats ect.

This is precisely one of the problems with hybridization. Let's suppose for a moment that someone does have a creamsicle corn and actually does not know that they are a hybrid with emoryi. This person happens to have a nice Okeetee corn and he decides to breed the two together. He then sells the offspring, and the buyers have no idea that the young are not pure guttata. Thus begins the snowball effect slowly polluting the gene pool.

>WWith out cross breeding some of the great new species would not be out there.

You cannot use the term "species" so loosely. You can breed a cal-king to a cornsnake, but you have by no means created a new species. These snakes are simply mutts. They have no taxonomic classification, and can not be called either E.g.guttata, or L.g.californiae.

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: It is not my intention to initiate another debate on this topic, so at this point I will not go into the various reasons why people get "all up in arms" about it as you say. : I will however address a couple of statements you made. : >Most people do not even sit back a realise that there are all kinks of crosses out threre that you may even own like:Candycane corns, Creamscile corns, Bublegum Rats ect. : This is precisely one of the problems with hybridization. Let's suppose for a moment that someone does have a creamsicle corn and actually does not know that they are a hybrid with emoryi. This person happens to have a nice Okeetee corn and he decides to breed the two together. He then sells the offspring, and the buyers have no idea that the young are not pure guttata. Thus begins the snowball effect slowly polluting the gene pool. : : >WWith out cross breeding some of the great new species would not be out there. : You cannot use the term "species" so loosely. You can breed a cal-king to a cornsnake, but you have by no means created a new species. These snakes are simply mutts. They have no taxonomic classification, and can not be called either E.g.guttata, or L.g.californiae.

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