Thank you!
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Originally Posted by Laura Fopiano
Soooo I ask all of you who are experienced in these magnificent creatures to please educate LoLo the jungle retard.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of jungles Laura! Hee!
It can be quite confusing and I spent a couple years looking at tons of pics and listening to other’s opinions before I made the leap to get any of my own (also was lucky enough to see a couple in person). Here are the main things I look for in a jungle:
1) aberrant pattern (which neither of mine really has but that has a lot to do with their bloodlines, in this case, red group line animals don’t have much aberrancies in general)
2) saddle outline – the saddles have a faded look in the middle and a stark outline around the edge (normally see this in the saddles closer towards the tail)
3) the ‘head hole’ (again, neither of mine have a good expression of this) in the arrowhead shape on the head of the snake, jungles tend to have a little open circle, you see this especially in super jungles
4) color – the base color on the top usually has a much richer yellow tone than the laterals
5) lateral line – jungles tend to have a line of dots that runs along the top of the laterals
I guess those are the main things I look for and you’ll notice a lot of ‘tend to’ in there, jungles are highly variable with some animals expressing all those things and some expressing almost none of them. I asked on another forum and the two I posted are considered mid-grade or ‘normal’ expression jungles.
As Randall mentioned, when another gene is in the mix that also messes with color and pattern like hypo, it can make the differences harder to pick out.
Not a great example, but here’s a shot of Julie eating you can see how the top base coloration around her tail is golden/yellow and then look at the laterals right above the feeder and notice they are quite a bit lighter with an almost purple tone to them
That difference will show more and more as they get older, or at least it should, with the top getting more yellow and the lats staying light.
So where are pics of your hypo jungle?