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Old 07-31-17, 05:12 PM   #1
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White as white can be...

No, not an albino...

White snake with 'incredibly rare mutation' discovered in Australia
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Old 07-31-17, 05:15 PM   #2
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Lets call it a milk snake as to not confuse people
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Old 07-31-17, 05:20 PM   #3
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Re: White as white can be...

Hmm, it seems to me luecistic snakes aren't all that uncommon.
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Old 07-31-17, 05:58 PM   #4
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Re: White as white can be...

The Texas Leucistic Rat Snake has always been one of my favorite critters. I should have moved on one when I had the chance. I ended up getting an albino white sided bull snake to pair with my female albino.

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Old 07-31-17, 07:12 PM   #5
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It has more in common with a Rat Snake than a Milk Snake

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Old 08-01-17, 01:27 AM   #6
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Re: White as white can be...

Not particularly common for one to survive that long in the wild though.
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Old 08-01-17, 01:56 AM   #7
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Lets call it a milk snake as to not confuse people
Reminds me of the Monty Python Bruce sketch.

Pretty snake though.
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I love how everyone in the reptile community knows what leucistic means and it seems common knowledge but to everyone else in the world its some special thing. I really hate how silly the headline seems though.
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Old 08-01-17, 12:50 PM   #9
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Hey, don't shoot the middleman!

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I love how everyone in the reptile community knows what leucistic means and it seems common knowledge but to everyone else in the world its some special thing. I really hate how silly the headline seems though.
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Old 08-02-17, 06:26 PM   #10
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OH NO YOU DIDN'T!!!

Why WHITE snakes gotta be special?
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Old 08-02-17, 07:14 PM   #11
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Well, it might have to do something with standing out against everything not white, which is pretty much everything, and being a target for anything big enough to eat it. A white Sea Snake might get away with not being targeted from below on a sunny day, but from above...it's a sitting duck.

Also, I haven't seen many white snakes in the snow, where they'd be a little less conspicuous, but that's another story...


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OH NO YOU DIDN'T!!!

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Old 08-03-17, 07:21 AM   #12
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"suffers" from a pigment mutation. Wow.
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Old 08-03-17, 11:10 PM   #13
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That snake is almost as white as my tan line!
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