Snake of the Day 10-14-13

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Part of the non-Honey Motley siblings–of broods that include Honey Motleys–have a head that demonstrates less color (and often different colors) than the rest of their bodies.  Since not all of the non-Honey siblings exhibit this head color distinction, it begs the question, “is a gene mutation causing this?”. Breeding trials are under way to hopefully answer this question.  I’ll need to review past data to see if I got some of these from non-Honey Sunkissed Motleys in the past also.  Then, have I ever seen this with any Sunkissed mutants or their non-mutant siblings, and so on?  Only by evaluation of Punnet Square results can we unravel such genetic mysteries.  I’m convinced it’s not color-paradoxical in genetic origin.