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I'm not looking for a creationist vs evolutionist discussion, but I do think about things like this from time to time. While looking at "mohawk" The albino with a funky neck band, I started to wonder why that was so funky on a jungle...But that lead me to jungles are funky, normal ringed babies are the "norm" So how BIZZARRE is it that 'wt' have such perfectly spaced and sized rings? I think jungle pattern would be better for camoflauge...just seems strange to me.
 
maybe morphs evolve. stabilizing after time goes by. maybe this is what has happened to the ray hines hypo carrot tail morph.

from what im picking up in the other thread kelli from hiss and jon from sfgeckos seem to be hinting about a stronger variant of the ray hines hypo carrot tail morph.

is this a recent discovery? is there a possibility that maybe the morph has stabilized from being backcrossed so many times?
 
The bright black and yellow banding pattern is also present on a lot of nasty insects like wasps. Maybe the black and yellow banding are there to mimic these warning colors. If camoflage was the purpose, I think that the colors would be more subdued.

-Alice
 
from the normals ive seen it is kinda hard to see the bands in adulthood isnt it? then again maybe it might be a warning color for the vulnerable babies. i had assumed the jungles were line bred from a few partialy mottled bands or somthing. am i wrong?
 
most normals seen in the wild are so heavily spotted and dirty that you can't see the bands very well anyway. There is a few natural beauties but i think for the most part everything we have with bright colors wouldn't live for more than a few days in the wild
 
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