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by SimplySnakes on March 24, 2006
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I am iquiring about natural occuring hybrid EDB crosses with Canebrakes. Anyone out there collected or currently breed them? Also has anyone studied the effects of the snakes venom?
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by earthguy on March 24, 2006
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Fill out your profile, please. Crotalus horridus and C. adamanteus shouldn't hybridize naturally. They a very different species. If they did mate and produce fertile offspring within their natural range, then they would be the same snake ( like the old canebrake/timber controversy)
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by ViperZ on March 24, 2006
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Occasionally people do find EDBxcane crosses in the wild, although very uncommon im sure. There has been succesfull breedings recently as well. I saw babies at hamburg going for around 200$
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by SimplySnakes on March 24, 2006
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I do know they occur, especially in South Carolina. A good friend has found three in seperate areas from Hardeeville over to Beaufort. This has been years apart so they do interbreed. I have been on a quest to locate some ever since I saw the one on display at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia SC.
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by earthguy on March 24, 2006
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Has anyone described this in a journal? How do we know its a hybrid? Has anyone done DNA analysis, or do we just think they're hybrids based on their appearance. Where are some pics that I could see? Now you've gone and gotten me curious.
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by SimplySnakes on March 24, 2006
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Dick Bartlett had a group of neonates delivered at one of the Gainesville Herp Society meeting one night in a five gallon bucket. Hopefully he photographed at least one. Bill Cope verified they were hybrids also and thought Dick had kept one. I will have to call Dick and ask him myself.
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by Phobos on March 24, 2006
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Joshua:
See this picture I took at a friends house who has the wild caught EDB x Canebrake.
http://www.deadlybeautiful.com/gallery/686626/2/29496937
Al
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