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Captive Animal Mutations You Don't Like Seeing

Discussion in 'General Zoo Discussion' started by birdsandbats, 6 Dec 2019.

  1. Dylan

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    This is my opinion as well, so whenever I want to obtain animals with some mutations present in captive breeding, I make sure that I buy the natural color (or "classic" as it is usually called) morph. The only exception is when there are color variations of this species in wild which is the case with my Goniurosaurus hainanensis, where I have one classic and animal and two animals of the "black-eye" mutation.
     
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    Celestial eye goldfish are really creepy......
     
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    Leucistic axolotl , purely because reminders of the ubiquity of the animal in the pet trade yet the dire situation facing the wild type