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Behold, the Cyclops! A physical genetic ball python mutation.

OMG, that is so sad!!! Why the heck would someone keep that poor creature alive????
 
Wow, between the siamese hypo twins from Evan and that one, there are some strange things happening this season.
 
Just out of curiosity, could something like that ever survive? and live? could it still eat? or would the damage to the upper jaw and heat pits be to severe on it?? and not to mention the one eye, do you think it still worked?? im sorry for the questions, but these types of incidents are rather interesting, just like the two headed snakes.. iv heard of one or two staying alive in balls, but not many...

michelle
 
Are you going to preserve it in formalin? Even if you don't want to hang on to it, there is probably a high school or university biology teacher that would like to have it as a specimen.
 
I'm not a BP owner yet, but there is one thing that does slightly concern me. With the amount of effort put in to develope new morphs how much inbreeding goes on, and does anybody have any idea what effect this may have on the BP population as a whole? I'm hoping to get one when we move, and won't be looking at getting anything other that a normal. Are these inbred to the same extent, and is the general life expectancy of BP's dropping, or is there just no way of telling right now.
 
The father and mother of that snake were both WC, so It pretty unlikely that that snake is inbred.

WOW it was alive! Just goes to show how nature can be cruel.
 
Eden's Exotic Haven said:
The father and mother of that snake were both WC, so It pretty unlikely that that snake is inbred.

WOW it was alive! Just goes to show how nature can be cruel.
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"Nature" isn't a conscious entity and has no qualifying intentions, motivations or agenda. Nature is neutral and can't be "cruel" or "loving".
Stuff just happens. There are definite physiological and/or environmental and/or genetic factors that produce such results. If these factors can be discerned it would be beneficial. Given the current dearth of such knowledge, the benefits of such manifestations are curiosity, fascination and a motivation to discover.

I really think these animals should be preserved in the hopes that study can find the factors that lead to their formation.
 
Interesting... I think it may be the development within the egg, and not the genetics of the parents if it did not happen more than once. But please, let us know what the geneticist says.
 
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