inbreeding...

[infernalis]

Not to mention that F5 is not likely to happen in nature.

There is a colony of Melanistic garter snakes in Ohio that surely was created by natural inbreeding, since melanism is a morph.

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by Lankyrob

The difference with "natural inbreeding" and captive inbreeding is that in nature the weak/genetically defecient animals are likely to be predated or die off before breeding occurs leaving the "strong" genes to be shared rather than deficient ones

Fair point but you see the weak ones die off in captivity also.

[Lankyrob]

SOme would admittedly - but also some that would definitely not make breeding size in the wild could be nursed to breeding size in captivity......

[infernalis]

I "salvage" wee runts every year. some make it, some do not.

In nature I'm sure these runts would never make it on their own.