weeping widow
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His colors are very vibrant.....but no thanks.....I don't like snakes!! ale:
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Laughing. Yes, he is just a toddler. Don't worry he won't eat you. Yet, that is. smiling...PachelbelsCanon350D said:Gosh, he looks so TINY in your hand! The cool thing about the original photo you shot of him was that there was nothing to scale him against, so I thought he was this behemoth boa thing 4 inches thick who could squeeze me to death. Now I'm not so afraid anymore.
You're correct in that hypomelanistic is not the same as albino (Amelanistic). Albino is a complete lack of black pigment. Albinoism in boas is a recessive trait (the young must recieve the gene for albinoism from both parents for the trait to show).Joerocket said:I thought the exact same thing. So hypo basically means albino?-Joe
edit: looking at the pic again I see his eyes have black in them so maybe im a lit tle off in thinking hupo means albino.
Rob said:Great capture, you've completely spoiled my mental image with the second shot though - as was said, I had an image of a car crushing super hyper mega snake thing which could devour whole gazelles. Still, I suppose you're gonna feed him up to be like that one day!
I know very little about snakes, but they look cool. I'm not sure I could deal with feeding them frozen mice or whatever though - I'm a bit girly with things like that! Still, at least they don't smell (I guess).
Cool picture!
Rob
Hey Joe, (and I absolutely can not resist... how'd you get that gun in your hand?)Joerocket said:I'd love to get a snake. I had a simple corn snake when I was alot younger but he passed away as a baby (some type of digestive problem). The boas are beautiful snakes but they get too big for my liking. Is there any snakes as pretty as boas that dont get quite so big?
-Joe