Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Freebody, your example is irrelevant :P
If you bred 2 normal retics and they had an freak baby who was very small, fine.
But what about if you marry a very short woman, with the intent to have a shorter child. And you teach your children to marry short women/men, so that they can have short children as well.
These dwarfs are being produced intentionally, not accidentally, through selective breeding. Giving birth to a dwarf is just genetic mishap, not selective/intentional.
And yes, humans are stubborn/selfish, and so long as it appeals to our needs, animals will always take the back seat.
I don't know if the snake suffers in any way, though I doubt it. (I don't his fellow retics make fun of him at school) but its just about the fact that we probably would go to the extent of breeding something which suffers, for our own pleasure. (like the albino niles/iguanas who can barely see if anything at all)
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