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Does inbreeding really hurt anything?
I know there are some fatal homozygous morphs so obviously the siblings would be a pure choice to breed together. What I am asking about is more as a general rule. It seems in school it was always stressed that inbreeding was bad but some of the lines in herpetoculture are said to have started from a very small number of founders and are still going. Does anyone have first hand experience with inbreeding issues (with snakes that is lol)
Also when snakes first landed on small islands, wouldn't they have came from just a few specimens to begin with? Seems places like the galapagos would have shown issues in their populations after hundreds or years if inbreeding were a big enough issue?
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